Is this post, in fact, offensive?

[lurker]

To put it another way, if you're worried about an entire team of elitist moderation, why don't you appeal normally and only if the entire team conflicts with you with consider a public post.

[Peet]

To put it another way, if you're worried about an entire team of elitist moderation, why don't you appeal normally and only if the entire team conflicts with you with consider a public post.

In which case the mods will just remove your thread anyway!

--> if you have an unresolvable problem with moderation, go away.

[Forboding Angel]

The rape bit was going a bit too far. I'd have to agree with behe in this case.

[tombom]

i would usually take your side on things like this but that post was so bizarre and unprovoked that i can understand why it was changed. it wasn't really offensive, but pretty

[Gota]

To put it another way, if you're worried about an entire team of elitist moderation, why don't you appeal normally and only if the entire team conflicts with you with consider a public post.

In which case the mods will just remove your thread anyway!

--> if you have an unresolvable problem with moderation, go away.

<<----- Or don't

[hunterw]

this thread will soon devolve in to lolcats and blingee pictures

[KaiserJ]

the problem here : (not really even a problem, just a situation)

not everyone has english as their first language, not everyone actually speaks english day to day and learns the nuances of humor and tone and everything else that DOESNT come across in a post.

not cutting anyone up, there's really no reason this forum should be in the english language (apart from people like me, whose only other language is emmanuelese)

but bottom line, it's hard to detect whether it was a joke or not; to me it clearly is because i know the tone of the writing in your post, but for someone who wasn't used to hearing jokes in english, it could easily be misconstrued as an attack. i've heard humor is the last part of a language that people generally learn, as it relies on tone and colloquialisms that people new to the language may not be aware of.

pro tip : use "" to say when you're joking.

now its time for me to go and rape my cat

ouch, theres something in my eye!

[[TS]Lollocide]

Felony 1, 2, 3 appearances always make me laugh, usually because it ends up looking like this:

And I like cheese too!

Warning, FELONY 3.
POST LOCKED.
POOPED IN YOUR CAR.

You know what I mean.

[Neddie]

Nobody thought he wasn't trying to be funny.

[KaiserJ]

Nobody thought he wasn't trying to be funny.

ah! but... was the humor meant to insult, or just to amuse? i think this is the information lost when you pop a joke into text format sometimes

i think im allergic to cats, my eye itches

[luckywaldo7]

I MAKE MY OWN PIZZA

my feelings were hurt

[1v0ry_k1ng]

THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS

SCREW YOU

[JohannesH]

Shouldnt someone censor the OP

[rattle]

or punch him in the face

[Gota]

Ill summarize this pile of nonsense.
Everyone know it was a joke but you just pushed it a bit too far.
GG end of thread.