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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #45 - Feb 25^th, 2012 at 8:58pm

enough of this levity... this is a serious topic.
Huh

I wouldn't like to see posted on this forum either, if you remember it, the photo taken in Africa during famine.. war...horror.. the starving wee child dying in the desert, alone, ..except for the photographer, and the waiting vultures.

I can still see that picture .....can you.??.

And, truly it was a one in a trillion picture of reality.

And the photographer left her to the vultures. Sad

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Reply #46 - Feb 26^th, 2012 at 1:14pm

PN - exercise your sense of decency. I'd trust you to make that judgement. That picture of the young girl burnt by napalm would not make it into today's media reports. The times and the culture have changed since the 70's. I would regard it as unacceptable if it wasn't a well known picture.

You might find this link useful. Obviously Phan Thi Kim Phuk herself has no problem with her picture being used for charitable purposes. She went on to found the Kim Foundation:

http://www.kimfoundation.com/

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Reply #47 - Feb 26^th, 2012 at 10:36pm

muso wrote on Feb 26^th, 2012 at 1:14pm:

PN - exercise your sense of decency. I'd trust you to make that judgement. That picture of the young girl burnt by napalm would not make it into today's media reports. The times and the culture have changed since the 70's. I would regard it as unacceptable if it wasn't a well known picture.

You might find this link useful. Obviously Phan Thi Kim Phuk herself has no problem with her picture being used for charitable purposes. She went on to found the Kim Foundation:

http://www.kimfoundation.com/

Whatever forum may be involved, there must be people who make "judgement calls" on a whole range of issues, including pictures, language and even general abuse between members of each forum.

The decisions made by "moderators", for want of a better term, will never be agreeable to all, there will always be some who agree & some who will disagree and that is simply an indicator of the human condition & the variations in peoples background.

That said, I have seen what happens on other forums, when limits are not applied, where so called freedom of speech is allowed to run rampant and the usual outcome is that the forum goes completely downhill, most members leave & eventually the forum closes.

Anyway, I've told that story, simply to say this, I'm sure I will make some mistakes (from time to time) and I'm sure I will upset some members (from time to time), but I will try to exercise a fair & balanced judgement of each set of circumstances.

But hopefully and of most importance on a forum such as this, which is above all Political, my judgement will be irrespective of any Political considerations, which shouldn't be too hard, as I have very little time for any of them!

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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #48 - Feb 27^th, 2012 at 8:05am

Emma wrote on Feb 25^th, 2012 at 8:58pm:

enough of this levity... this is a serious topic.
Huh

I wouldn't like to see posted on this forum either, if you remember it, the photo taken in Africa during famine.. war...horror.. the starving wee child dying in the desert, alone, ..except for the photographer, and the waiting vultures.

I can still see that picture .....can you.??.

And, truly it was a one in a trillion picture of reality.

And the photographer left her to the vultures. Sad

I've posted that pic several times.
It's an extremely good picture to illustrate that life is not fair & outside our lovely little island where people on 100K+ still expect government assistance serious & nasty sh!t goes down everyday.

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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: Explicit Pictures Reply #49 - Feb 27^th, 2012 at 8:56am Kevin Carter killed himself right after he won the Pulitzer for that photograph. Photojournalism covering war zones and famine would have to be an incredibly difficult career.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Explicit Pictures Reply #50 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 2:35pm Surely this is going a bit too far. I don't know if the image is photoshopped or not, mainly because I didn't want to look very closely at it: http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1335950759
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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #51 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 2:57pm

perceptions_now wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 11:41am:

Following some recent pictures, which have since been removed, I wish to confirm that pictures which are explicitly Sexual, sadistic, depict overtly cruel scenes or are used to convey swear words or a derogatory meaning, are not welcome on any boards at this site.

Whilst I understand that this necessarily calls for personal judgements by site administrators &/or Global Moderators, I trust you will agree that open slather is just not possible or desirable.

As Administrators &/or Global Moderators would find it extremely difficult to get to every post, your assistance in keeping such pictures off all boards at this site would be greatly appreciated, by way of sending a PM to one of the Administrators &/or Global Moderators!

I wish to thank you, in anticpation of your co-operation!

SO YOU AGREE THAT WESTERNERS EXPLICITLY KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE IS OK WITH NO INVESTIGATION INTO THE RATIONALE AS TO WHY THOSE WESTERNERS WERE THEMSELVES ATTACKED IN THE FIRST PLACE????

wE ALL KNOW YOU WON'T DARE TO ANSWER THAT!

GOODLUCK SLEEPING TONIGHT BTW!! HERE'S HOPING YOU CAN SUPPRESS THAT TRUTH ONE MORE NIGHT!!!

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Reply #52 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 2:59pm

perceptions_now wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 11:41am:

Following some recent pictures, which have since been removed, I wish to confirm that pictures which are explicitly Sexual, sadistic, depict overtly cruel scenes or are used to convey swear words or a derogatory meaning, are not welcome on any boards at this site.

Whilst I understand that this necessarily calls for personal judgements by site administrators &/or Global Moderators, I trust you will agree that open slather is just not possible or desirable.

As Administrators &/or Global Moderators would find it extremely difficult to get to every post, your assistance in keeping such pictures off all boards at this site would be greatly appreciated, by way of sending a PM to one of the Administrators &/or Global Moderators!

I wish to thank you, in anticpation of your co-operation!

PN CAN'T PLAY CHESS!!

LOOK OUT FOR THE RICOCHET!! Cheesy

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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #53 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:14pm

perceptions_now wrote on Feb 26^th, 2012 at 10:36pm:

muso wrote on Feb 26^th, 2012 at 1:14pm:

PN - exercise your sense of decency. I'd trust you to make that judgement. That picture of the young girl burnt by napalm would not make it into today's media reports. The times and the culture have changed since the 70's. I would regard it as unacceptable if it wasn't a well known picture.

You might find this link useful. Obviously Phan Thi Kim Phuk herself has no problem with her picture being used for charitable purposes. She went on to found the Kim Foundation:

http://www.kimfoundation.com/

Whatever forum may be involved, there must be people who make "judgement calls" on a whole range of issues, including pictures, language and even general abuse between members of each forum.

The decisions made by "moderators", for want of a better term, will never be agreeable to all, there will always be some who agree & some who will disagree and that is simply an indicator of the human condition & the variations in peoples background.

That said, I have seen what happens on other forums, when limits are not applied, where so called freedom of speech is allowed to run rampant and the usual outcome is that the forum goes completely downhill, most members leave & eventually the forum closes.

Anyway, I've told that story, simply to say this, I'm sure I will make some mistakes (from time to time) and I'm sure I will upset some members (from time to time), but I will try to exercise a fair & balanced judgement of each set of circumstances.

But hopefully and of most importance on a forum such as this, which is above all Political, my judgement will be irrespective of any Political considerations, which shouldn't be too hard, as I have very little time for any of them!

hEY, pn, YOU GET CREDIT FOR ATLEAST POSTING YOUR OPINIONS BUT NONE FOR ADMITTING MISTAKES! Which means you're not really interacting .... Which means......!!

...the world turns brother and if you can't turn with it you fly off!

IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!

DON'T PANDER TO THE BLOODTHIRSTY SARAH PALIN CROWD COS THEY ARE WHACKO GUM CHEWING COWARDS WHO HIDE BEHIND THE 'UNLUCKY' CANNON FODDER WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE...

THOSE PICTURES TELL A STORY AND YOU ARE SUPPRESSING IT AND SO PROMOTING THE VERY CULTURE WHICH BORE THEM!

THE INABILITY TO DISCUSS THE TRUTH AND INSTEAD PROMOTE MASS MINDLESS CONSUMERISM COMPLETE WITH LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE IDLE DISTRACTION IS WHAT CAUSED 9-11: IT WAS ALWAYS AN UNSUSTAINABLE/UNSTABLE TRAJECTORY THAT NEEDED MARKET CORRECTION!

BY SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH YOU ARE BIDDING FOR WORLD WAR 3!

YOU ARE LIKE A CHESS PLAYER WHO REFUSES TO LEARN FROM HIS PREVIOUS LOST GAMES....

WAKE UP BUDDY..... THATS ALL YOU NEED TO DO!!

ANGER DEFEATS US ALL.... PRIDE MUST BE SWALLOWED AND THE AGONY OF THOSE PICTURES MUST BE REALISED TO BE LEARNT FROM!!!

DO YOU REALLY THINK I LIKE THOSE PICTURE!!!!

ARE WE ALL JUST SUPPOSED TO SIT AROUND OUR KEYBOARDS PERIODICALLY CLEANING THE SCREEN PRETENDING THE/
OUR
WORLD IS ROSES ..
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT
???
Embarrassed

MAN UP, FELLA- WAR IS NOT FOR WIMPS AND METROS!!

MAYBE GET A GIRL TO DO THE MODDING OR SOMETHING MATE COS, LIKE IT CURRENTLY IS, YOU'RE SIMPLY RUNNING A SHAM FORUM!! Lips Sealed

** GET WITH THE PROGRAM, SHEEEEEESH! **

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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Explicit Pictures Reply #54 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:18pm aMERICA WAS IN A CULTURE BUBBLE: and so to it's supporters! ---> AND WE STILL ARE, SO MAN UP pn!
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Explicit Pictures Reply #55 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:41pm freediver wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2012 at 8:49am: What do people think of the use of graphic images of war, execution etc as part of political debate? THE TRUTH IS ALL YOU'VE GOT!
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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #56 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:48pm

It_is_the_Darkness wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 7:36pm:

I don't think such pictures need to be tooo graphic otherwise this Forum could get in trouble for promoting such stuff as 'Snuff Vidios/Images' etc.

I'm sure we all get the message from a more respectable image.

No we don't: that's the point!

That is why propaganda and advertising exist!!

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Reply #57 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:51pm

Dsmithy70 wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 8:09pm:

freediver wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2012 at 8:10pm:

We discuss all sorts of 'mature' concepts here. I don't want to limit that. I think young people can handle that. Discussing war while glossing over the violence aspect is not really discussing it at all.

Would you be equally opposed to a graphic description of what goes on in war?

No one comes to this site from a search for anything a young kid would type.
Censorship on the "Off Chance" is already rampant in the R/W.

Any pictures that are relvent to the discussion should be allowed.
War is Hell.

hear hear!!

And let's not forget congrats should go to freediver for upping the maturity stakes!!

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Re: Explicit Pictures
Reply #58 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:53pm

Emma wrote on Feb 24^th, 2012 at 9:09pm:

Happily I wasn't lurking around where these images/since deleted . .. appeared.

I tend to agree with AA. If truly disturbing images are to be posted, in a relevant context. a fair thing would be the consideration of a warning beforehand.!

I won't speak for anyone else on this - just myself.

If the pictures are of butchered and mangled women and children... ...I can only assume one of the male supremacist types posted them. To score some point puerile point. no doubt.!!
SHAME ON YOU.

I don't need to see such things FROM YOU.. U R sole. whichever one of the suspects! Angry

you are.
I say to the mods/ Perc. now. if you consider this was ( 'cos I didn't see it) beyond the pale.. ban for a period of time. This sort of useage for shock value is almost an assault.!

So IM GLAD I MISSED IT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very glad.

So, how should the war against the war economy be fought then?

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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Explicit Pictures Reply #59 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:54pm BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on May 3^rd, 2012 at 3:14pm: MAYBE GET A GIRL TO DO THE MODDING OR SOMETHING No thanks. I was a moderator for a while on another now defunct forum, and it's a rather time consuming job. I don't really have the spare time to do it properly (moderating a forum that is).
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