Should personal attacks be allowed on Apolyton Off Topic?

[PLATO]

That is indeed what I think when I see your posts. Mostly cause of the avatar

It should be the official avatar of the OT in my opinion. That is one fine ass.

[rah]

If only it was SFW

[Jon Miller]

If only it was SFW

I had to be a party pooper, but I would appreciate it if he changed it.

JM
(professor now, not a student)

[-Jrabbit]

Yeah, my wife thinks Sava must be a sexist douche, based strictly on his avatar.

[Hauldren Collider]

Idea: put a button on the forum "turn Sava Ass on/off" for those times when you're reading poly at work or in public. It only turns Sava's avatar off.

[loinburger]

You can block individual avatars via adblock plus, since they always have the same URL - this is useful for extremely gay and/or epilepsy-inducing avatars

[Uncle Sparky]

Should also have mentioned that you did not expect so much offense to be caused, that it might have involved different cultural standards for offense, etc. So I guess the moral here is that these things are complicated?

They are complicated. For example, I'm sure some of you don't realize how offended we Canadians become when you read our posts but forget to 'thank' us for them.

[Elok]

Re: the Sava-butt, I just keep Sava on ignore, purely so I don't have to explain to my son what that picture is of. He recognizes Loin as Mickey--the skull part doesn't seem to faze him--but he's desperately curious about all avatars, and I can't think of any explanation for Sava's that won't come back to bite me on the [avatar].

[N35t0r]

At work, I just slip the right side of the IE (ugh) window under the task bar (which I have on the side), to hide avatars.

[rah]

I'd have to mess around with it because I have a wide screen so it really doesn't scroll.
That might work, but the avatars let me know which posts to ignore unless there's a good reason not to

[MrFun]

Re: the Sava-butt, I just keep Sava on ignore, purely so I don't have to explain to my son what that picture is of. He recognizes Loin as Mickey--the skull part doesn't seem to faze him--but he's desperately curious about all avatars, and I can't think of any explanation for Sava's that won't come back to bite me on the [avatar].

Oh for god's sake, every kid knows they have a butt of their own.

[Elok]

You speak as one who has never had a three-year-old child. Whatever you tell them, they will choose to recount to random people at random moments for no discernible reason. "And then Daddoo just said the picture on the computer was a lady's booty, Father Gregory." No thank you.

[MrFun]

You speak as one who has never had a three-year-old child. Whatever you tell them, they will choose to recount to random people at random moments for no discernible reason. "And then Daddoo just said the picture on the computer was a lady's booty, Father Gregory." No thank you.

Ah - well, okay yeah, the kid would repeat it completely out of context, making it seem much more horrible than your answer really was.

[Alexander's Horse]

If the OT didn't have personal attacks it would quickly turn into that vanilla OT that I never go to. Just keep it civil and friendly, and ideally funny, is the best way.

Like this guy:

[DinoDoc]