Since I haven't posted in this thread since its first real go-around, and I seem to have been referenced in this thread recently, I'll do so now.
"Making fun of noobs" and "making fun of spammers" are two completely different things. When someone comes here and posts some garbage advertisement for their cause/product/service/etc., we (the mods, and also many of our regular members) take real offense to this. Add to that the frequency of occurence that we have to deal with spammers (more than most of you could ever guess) and, yes, we sometimes are less than pleasant when dealing with the spammers. It happens. In the case of the spammer, we are not making fun of a new member, but a person who signed up just to spam the board-
that is not a member, it is an asshole blighting the TFP with its crap.
As to why the thread took off to begin with, the intentions behind the first post were not immediately seen to be "spam", and many people chimed in on the topic with a good discussion before it was really discovered to simply be spam.
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Originally Posted by rsl12
Saying you're glad that someone won't be having any children is a personal attack.
I would have had no problem if they had said, "that's a load of bullshit."
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That's a load of bullshit.
Regardless of whether or not it's an attack, the person being attacked was not a member- it was a spammer. Big difference. To use the "Angrymom" thread example from before, one was a rookie posting something that turned out to be a real issue, not the giant flame-bait some of us thought it was, and THIS thread turned out to be spam, not an actual discussion on "not having kids, to end the world" (which it mutated into anyway, despite the original spam).
See this is what we have to balance. Sometimes it's not just "HEY COME CHECK OUT MY SITE I CAN MAKE YOUR PENIS BIGGER", sometimes things balance on a line. Both of those rookie-first-posts could have simply been some sort of useless ad or propaganda. On inspection, one was- and the other was not. It happens.
A lot of things grow in the garden that is the TFP... some are actual flowers, and some are weeds... but when they first appear, sometimes a weed can look like a flower, or vice-versa. After looking into it, we reveal the root of the issue, and either allow it to flourish- or rip it out with our bare hands, in disgust. Tell me you've never cursed a weed for its negative presence in your TFP flowerbed.