Remove Potentially Racist threads?

roy123456789 · 2008-03-28 15:24:52

I've noticed quite a few threads lately that are bordering on, or are simply Racist. Should they be allowed? I realise this is an "open" type forum but should there be limits?

28-03-2008 04:24PM

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I've noticed quite a few threads lately that are bordering on, or are simply Racist.
Should they be allowed?
I realise this is an "open" type forum but should there be limits?

Remove Racist posts? 28 votes

Yes, they should be removed

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No, free speech and all that

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#2 28-03-2008 04:28PM

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Batten down the hatches, we've got one hum-dinger of a sh!tstorm inbound!

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#3 28-03-2008 04:28PM

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no, opinions will always clash. Its all interpritive, what i consider racist you may not.. ya know?

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#4 28-03-2008 04:30PM

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Indeed if you find something offensive isn't the problem really yours for finding it offensive and if you do then dont look at it

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#5 28-03-2008 04:30PM

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Can you give any examples of racist threads?

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#6 28-03-2008 04:32PM

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If they weren't allowed moderators would lock/delete/bin them...report what you have a problem with and see what happens...

New poll: Remove potentially pointless polls?

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#7 28-03-2008 04:33PM

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In my opinion yes they should be closed.

Discussions on how people from other countries are inferior to us or worse than us because they are dirty, smelly, lazy, etc. should be too close to the bone for Irish people!!

Anti-Irish racism
Harpers weekly once compared the Irish to "Negroes" and said we should be extinct.

So any half-wit engaging in racism and thinking they are superior should realise that for a long time the rest of the "civilised" world thought we were "white-negroes" and "savages"! :rolleyes:

All of that said, the AH mods do a great job in balancing out these threads!

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#8 28-03-2008 04:33PM

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I hate all races equally. Equality ftw!

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#9 28-03-2008 04:33PM

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all the stars wrote: »

no, opinions will always clash. Its all interpritive, what i consider racist you may not.. ya know?

Would you disagree that terms like n****r or ch**k are racist terms?

Discussions on how people from other countries are inferior to us or worse than us

Glad to see I'm not the only one sick of those threads.

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#10 28-03-2008 04:33PM

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Campaign to limit the number of Taxis. add your voice here

I find your signature racist against Nigerian Taxi drivers.......

YOU PEOPLE SICKEN ME!

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#11 28-03-2008 04:35PM

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r3nu4l wrote: »

In my opinion yes they should be closed.

Discussions on how people from other countries are inferior to us or worse than us because they are dirty, smelly, lazy, etc. should be too close to the bone for Irish people!!

Anti-Irish racism
Harpers weekly once compared the Irish to "Negroes" and said we should be extinct.

So any half-wit engaging in racism and thinking they are superior should realise that for a long time the rest of the "civilised" world thought we were "white-negroes" and "savages"! :rolleyes:

All of that said, the AH mods do a great job in balancing out these threads!

facts, historical or otherwise, have no place on after hours.

shame on you.

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#12 28-03-2008 04:35PM

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OMG Potentially racist threads!:eek: Bollox to that, any thread has that potential all it requires is someone to post a racist remark on it, tell you what lets lock all the threads put boards.ie back in it's box and all go out to play:rolleyes:

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#13 28-03-2008 04:36PM

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OP: define "potentially" racist threads...do you mean ban any thread which looks like it might turn into a thread where people posted racist remarks? Pre-emptive modding? I can just see Dudess now, hunched over her crystal ball with the mouse hovering over "Lock Thread"...

[edit] Slo Mo knows where it's at...

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#14 28-03-2008 04:39PM

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ojewriej wrote: »

Can you give any examples of racist threads?

From the first page, the following linked threads made me wonder, I guess it was the high ratio that made me wonder,

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263856

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263560

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263607

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263491

How Irish and Mexico Emo = death could have been included but that'd be pushing it to the limits

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#15 28-03-2008 04:40PM

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Slow Motion wrote: »

OMG Potentially racist threads!:eek: Bollox to that, any thread has that potential all it requires is someone to post a racist remark on it, tell you what lets lock all the threads put boards.ie back in it's box and all go out to play:rolleyes:

Awww do I have to? It's raining outside

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#16 28-03-2008 04:41PM

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OMG, pointless thread... 1 of those threads u pointed out could be racial, but I'm sure its being monitored (the first one)

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#17 28-03-2008 04:42PM

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Schism wrote: »

Awww do I have to? It's raining outside

Yes! Yes you do! Friends in your head and on the internet aren't real or healthy!;)

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#18 28-03-2008 04:43PM

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I don't see any of them as racist. They have a potential to turn ugly, but they are not racist.

Not everything touching the subject of a relationship between different nations is racist.

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#19 28-03-2008 04:46PM

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Slow Motion wrote: »

Yes! Yes you do! Friends in your head and on the internet aren't real or healthy!;)

All my imaginary friends went out... without me, bastards :mad:

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#20 28-03-2008 04:46PM

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Hey maybe Dev or someone could just delete the database.......make all the racism go away. Or I hear that barney the dinosaurs a pretty good guy for race relations.....maybe he does consulting, Barney for mod?

Oh and this!

I hate all races equally. Equality ftw!

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#21 28-03-2008 04:48PM

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r3nu4l wrote: »

So any half-wit engaging in racism and thinking they are superior should realise that for a long time the rest of the "civilised" world thought we were "white-negroes" and "savages"! :rolleyes:

Exactly! now its our turn to dish out some racism!

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#22 28-03-2008 04:48PM

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pointless post in pointless thread .o/

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#23 28-03-2008 04:51PM

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Sherifu wrote: »

pointless post in pointless thread .o/

Your right, but I'd like to make a bit of a fuss as long as I'm here.

Seriously though I don't see the racism in those threads you listed, except maybe the romanian one.

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#24 28-03-2008 04:53PM

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You can't do anything these days without being racist..

I don't like black coffee

"OMG ur so lik racist!"

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#25 28-03-2008 04:59PM

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Mordeth wrote: »

facts, historical or otherwise, have no place on after hours.

shame on you.

:eek: You're right, what was I thinking
/shakes head

Morkarleth wrote: »

Glad to see I'm not the only one sick of those threads.

They are pretty awful! Pointless and without any merit imo!

hugejeans wrote: »

Exactly! now its our turn to dish out some racism!

Not quite the point I was trying to make but now I see why so many religions interpret the same pieces of scrpture differently

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#26 28-03-2008 04:59PM

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Unfortunately modern soapboxs are now constucted from sheets of oversensitivtiy and glued together using modern selfrightous polymers thus leading a nauseating effect on people in the vicenity of its user.

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#27 28-03-2008 05:00PM

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r3nu4l wrote: »

In my opinion yes they should be closed.

Discussions on how people from other countries are inferior to us or worse than us because they are dirty, smelly, lazy, etc. should be too close to the bone for Irish people!!

Anti-Irish racism
Harpers weekly once compared the Irish to "Negroes" and said we should be extinct.

So any half-wit engaging in racism and thinking they are superior should realise that for a long time the rest of the "civilised" world thought we were "white-negroes" and "savages"! :rolleyes:

All of that said, the AH mods do a great job in balancing out these threads!

+1

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#28 28-03-2008 05:03PM

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You Suck! wrote: »

Unfortunately modern soapboxs are now constucted from sheets of oversensitivtiy and glued together using modern selfrightous polymers thus leading a nauseating effect on people in the vicenity of its user.

Well said, too many people have wafer thin skin nowadays.

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#29 28-03-2008 05:07PM

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Wertz wrote: »

New poll: Remove potentially pointless polls?

All the Poles here are doing good, honest, worthwhile jobs. Remove pointless Irish/Dubs/northsiders/culchies*.

*Delete as appropriate.

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#30 28-03-2008 05:07PM

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The Admins should do a deal with Stormfront, AH mods get to move racist, far-right neo-nazi type threads there and we get any threads they think are pinko, lefty-liberal, PC type threads

Kind of like an exchange program

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#31 28-03-2008 05:07PM

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roy123456789 wrote: »

I've noticed quite a few threads lately that are bordering on, or are simply Racist.
Should they be allowed?
I realise this is an "open" type forum but should there be limits?

That's why we have moderators, to decide what stays open and what locks.

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