Zylka's avatar

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
No one ever does any harm until someone overly sensitive raises the alarm.

Pray tell, is actively preaching racism and hatred "not doing any harm?"

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
actively preaching

It's neither active nor preaching. The bare minimum of action is required to set your avatar and then you just leave it there and post as normal. It's passive.

Also, the simple appearence of a picture next to someone's name can hardly be considered preaching. Am I suggesting that everyone should talk with a poor english accent and attempt to murder their mothers like Stewie from Family Guy?
Is Dr. Spike's Warcraft-Orc avatar encouraging everybody to burn down villages and worship demons?
Is Ming's Ming-the-Merciless avatar extolling the virtues of brutal and tyrannical inter-galactic despotism and universal conquest? (actually ... maybe it is)

Now, somebody actually posting text that matched Nazi doctrine would be active preaching, and they would certainly be banned for it. The whole avatar thing is a load of fuss about nothing, to be honest. I don't credit those disgusting evil people (I mean Nazis, not Zylka and Uber ) with enough to pay any attention to what they say. No sane person is going to have their socio-political opinions changed by an avatar on an internet forum. The actual words that are posted, maybe, but the picture is irrelevant.

Of course, Dan and Mark can make their own rules.

[mrmitchell]

Thanks, FP--perhaps I didn't word it right for UR

[Nubclear]

I must say, Zylkas troll is QUITE impressive. And so is ubers.

Cause its causing such a stir, and sooo many people (Such as JohnT and Panag) are falling into it

Zylka
Uber

[Ming]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Of course, Dan and Mark can make their own rules.

That's right...

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
I must say, Zylkas troll is QUITE impressive. And so is ubers.

Cause its causing such a stir, and sooo many people (Such as JohnT and Panag) are falling into it

Zylka
Uber

danke, danke :bow:

although i'd like to go on record that i honestly dislike the whole thing in it's entirety, especially because i was informed a while back that not only swastikas but any "white power" symbols were disallowed. i had used several things, the swastika, the ss logo, the ss skull, all were disallowed, and i can see their justification (although i dont agree with it).

but white power and the movement to keep the race pure should not be bannable, and some of their symbols probably wouldn't be allowed around here. maybe i should make some

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
It's neither active nor preaching. The bare minimum of action is required to set your avatar and then you just leave it there and post as normal. It's passive.

Nazis and neo-Nazis actively preach(ed) hatred and racism. Using the Nazi swastika as an avatar shows that the poster agrees with such a position.

Therefore, holding using the Nazi swastika is harmless means that person finds nothing objectionable with the position of agreeing with the neo-Nazis.

[mrmitchell]

...so the History Channel is staffed by several hundred neo-Nazis? Nice theory you got there.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Nazis and neo-Nazis actively preach(ed) hatred and racism. Using the Nazi swastika as an avatar shows that the poster agrees with such a position.

Hate to say it, but could they be TROLLING?

On Apolyton! Never!

They could also be using it for RELIGIOUS purposes or wanting ethnic purity (NON VIOLENT).

Look before you leap.....

[notyoueither]

And blatant trolling isn't allowed either.

I agree with Locutus and UR. There is no need to use that symbol, anywhere. There is a reason it is outlawed in some liberal democracies.

As Ming says, it's a private site. The owners choose not to allow the symbol to be used. I applaud them.

And no, there is nothing else one could ban which is equivalent to banning it. Nothing even comes close.

[Adagio]

Let's get back to topic:

Zylka's avatar

Am I the only one, who had noticed that "thing" at the bottom of his avatar... it sure looks suspicious...

[Adagio]

...and if you don't know what I'm talking about, please read this thread!

...Zylka's 4th post in this thread, to be exact...

[DrSpike]

I did not notice...............it's well hidden.

[Jamski]

I just thought it was some kind of ribbon.....

Well, 99.9% of us have seen one before *shrugs*

-Jam

[Adagio]

Originally posted by DrSpike


I did not notice...............it's well hidden.

...I didn't notice it myself either, if it wasn't because his post in that other thread