These are the RULES you are expected to know them

You DO NOT talk about chuckpalahniuk.net!

BANZ!!?!??! I've been ignoring the rules for about two years now!! I don't think I've been breaking them, but I haven't really acknowledged their existence either.

You better pack your bags, Ritt, we're taking you to BANtown!

Did someone get banned? Usually you crybabies don't start whining until that happens. This is unprecedented!

Read them all the way through to the end:

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Which rule(s) was broken to make this thread appear at this time?

yeah.

ironman flooded the shoutbox with his mental density and buried my brilliant Italian Apparel line.

I think it's just because IRONMAN got a pm about some rule he's breaking and he's been going wild in shoutbox.

Yeah, Iroman likes to make it a point to make PRIVATE messages (PM's) public and then act as if he is the victim of all this because he needs a list of what profanity he can and can't use in shoutbox. Also, I just learned Denisty is Ironman's real name.

: You are my density!

Haha!

Profanity is not allowed in User IDs, thread titles, blog titles, Gallery descriptions, Group Names or in the Shoutbox.

All I asked is if profanity was this seven words:

shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits

Thats all I want to know!

I swear.........

Thats all I asked............

and if not, how do I know what a curse word is?

Is shakespears "Fawning, fool-born, malt-worm" a profanity?

How do we KNOW!

so what does making PMs public have to do with swearing in the shoutbox?

did you drop out of school in 2nd grade? How do you NOT know what a curse word is? Do you know what an adjective is? what about nouns or verbs?

Also, nobody's allowed to look Kirk in the eyes anymore.

Mirka, add that to the Rules.

I don't know why, but this made me laugh harder than anything else today.

That's because you have a great sense of humor. It cracked me the hell up too.

I did not grow up in the US. All I know is that I said fuck or shit and that was a curse word.

If their not: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits

then WTF are is it?

"You don't mess with the man with no eyes, Luke!"

You know, the rules used to just sit in the dust. We could get away with shit then. Out of sight, out of mind. Without spamming newbs, morey, and Ironman, we wouldn't even really need mods and regulations to the extent we do now, they would just be ancient relics that nobody has ever really seen but has heard tales of. Instead you bring the heat.

It's like you niggas is bringing the cops into my hood. Not that I've got an operation going on here, but still. These cops hanging around, people are gonna start to wonder what's drawing them in. That's all I need is to get shot by some frantic, doped up mother fucker who sees the blue in my hood and gets paranoid. Stay the fuck from police. If niggas thinkin' your snitchin', they ain't tryin' to listen. They'll be sittin' in your kitchen, waitin' for you to get in.

You know what a swear word is. A swear word is like dancing. This situation is the equivalent of the teacher telling you not to dance in class, and then you bob your head and say it isn't dancing and you think you're clever. You'll get away with a lot more if you just lay low. In time, they'll look away, and you can dance your merry little heart out.

I am still waiting for someone to rationally explain what a curse word is.

Listen to Nightrious. Dude's right.

Hey, all I know is that some new rules where made when I was gone and I got a PM that went like this:

Please dont curse on shoutbox, thanx.

IM: Cool, is their a word list I can get?

Theirs no word list. Just dont curse.

IM: So, I cant say the 7 words you cant say on TV? thats it right?

No, you cant curse, period.

IM: But you sended me this cause I said "fuck." Is their more words then Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits? and if so how do I know which ones acceptable?

You cant. This conversation is over.

And then in the shout box the tell me that theirs no list because we will come up with OTHER words to curse with. Now I got really confused.

IM: So, is a curse an insult?

No.

IM: So if its not an insult and "fuck" is a curse but theirs no specific wordlist that is conscidered curse. THEN WTF IS IT!?!? what if I call someone a "dog"? is that a curse? AHHH!!!

And then Nathiel called me an ignorant. Maybe its one of does ideas like good and evil. God. success and failior I can understand only in an intellectual level."Like, yeah, you believe thiers an all powerful man in the sky and certain actions give you some feeling and you call this "good" but WHY do you believe theirs a man in the sky and why is something "good"!?!?" Like the idea of "You know what the right thing to do is" would come to me has a kid. and I am all like "WTF are you talking about? I am not giving my stuff to another kid. this is MY stuff! are you CRAZY?"

I really wish someone explained it. Maybe its just like that idea of good and evil. Few people can give a good explination about them. They just somehow seem to know.

Its hard to be a amoral sometimes. Maybe thats why the Elite hates the common people. They just dont understand eachother.

Just stop cursing, Ironman.

*notices Nightrious leaning against his car hood

Hey, chief.  You lost or something??  LICENSE AND REGISTRATION!

Christ sakes, dude. You can't post PMs. I'll try to define this in your own language:

It's the same as your good and evil analogy. There is no good and there is no evil and there is no such thing as a curse word. Nobody can give you a list of curse words because language is infinite, evolving, and a list is a finite thing, it's a static thing, just sitting there, like a concept, like an idea, like good and evil. This idea is impossible to achieve. No static thing can sustain a relationship with the living, moving, flowing world around us. If there were a list, it would have to be updated daily. You would be able to make up new words to get around the list. Can you swear in other languages? Can you find some long forgotten racial slur and bust it out? There are a million ways around it. There is no list. There is no rule that we can't swear in the shoutbox. This rule is an idea in somebody's head, which can only be effective as a means of urging people to use common sense, that living, breathing thing inside you that knows, not right from wrong, but effectiveness as it is relevant to the exact situation at hand. Cause and effect. If you can seduce people, if you have a penchant for power, if you're anything of a rhetorical pro, or even amateur, you should be able to grasp, through common sense, what effect your actions will have. When you post something, think: If it were my responsibility to sustain a level of decency on the surface of this website, would I accept this? If you can't relate to the mind of your enemy then your whole campaign is lost. Your iron will is working against you, like the mighty oak that endures the strong winds until a mightier gale snaps its branches off. Be the willow, bend with the wind, and snap back when the breeze is gone.

FINALLY someone speaks my lenguage!

So my conclusion is thats something that the "good and just" consciders to give a "negative" feeling.

Was that so fucking hard Nathiel?

Ironman,

I already told you, since you claim to be having such a hard time figuring this out, that if it can't be said on Sesame Street then don't say it. I'm not saying this is the rule for everyone, but it's the rule for people who are being difficult for the sake of being difficult.

We are not going to give you a list because we know you well enough to know that when we provide the following list:

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits

The first thing you're going to do is go "They didn't list Cum Sucker" or some other term and then post that. Don't play dumb or innocent your intentions are pretty obvious. By the time you're 5 years old you know what words are "bad".

and I dont have common sense Night. The only people who make sense to me are people like Voltaire and Federik the Great. I sit on PSYCH class and wonder how a psychopath who has money, power and tons of woman be mentally ill. It goes against the laws of nature. Machiavelli makes sense. The common people dont.

Your a child.

Common sense is sheep's clothing, pup. You won't grow to be a big bad wolf like Machiavelli if you don't learn to hide your little fangs.

Someone spank him and get it over with.

Actually, I'm just gonna get the baby powder and take my own advice. OOOOH, IRONMAAAAN...

Do not harass or intentionally annoy the mods or insult the website or website staff. If you do not like the mods or the rules, feel free to leave.

EDIT: In case that wan't clear, that was a ban. A permaban. I am way more lax about shit that is directed at me, but no way am I allowing this guy get away with talking to another admin that way. No way. Ironman maybe amusing to some of you, but he has wasted enough of our time. You can't begin to believe how many chances he's been given.

So, the Cult is really going to be IRONMANless from here on out?

Well this fucking sucks. Shame. He was a smart guy. And really wanted to join the writer's workshop. That's all killed now.

Well, that's his own fault, really.

Is there some alternate universe that I'm unaware of wherein Ironman is a "smart guy"?

Yes!

Where else will he go? Who will accept him?

You don't have to deal with him and nobody should expect you to. If this were any other forum on the internet he would have been banned long ago. He's been given more than enough chances and he's been a prick about it. The amount of work that's put into running around after people like him and morey should be considered generous.

That said, it sucks that he's gone. His entertaining, and I do think he's smart, even if he's crazy. But I honestly didn't think you had the heart to actually perma ban the little nigga... Boo urns to the max.

Good riddance.

thunderdome, dude, provide the link for the permabanned.

good lord, i go to work for 5 hrs. and this is what i find when i get home, you kids and your fucking messes, clean that shit up!
oh wait... i guess you did,
i don't know much about ironman, he seemed cool but oh well.
r.i.p

It's little sad. He was a character.

this makes me sad...ironman is just a harmless dense dude

oh well, his decision to keep running his mouth i guess

it says to refrain from stupidity. with that in mind, im sure at least 30% of the members on this site are in violation of the forum rules.

I wish I could have found a different photo to express this. I wanted something referring to a broken hearth (heart). I just read that subtitle and it makes me sound all subversive and stuff.

Wow, such drama. Ironman screws it up for himself. *Shrugs*

About time. Thank you.

There is a very good chance I would swear on Sesame Street...