That's because he's a troll.
He's a troll that I find likeable a lot of the time, but that doesn't alter the fact that he's a troll.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:37, archived)

Well i luff you :)

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:38, archived)

I luff you too
and I appreciate how good you are at stirring people sometimes, except when you successfully manage to stir me!
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:41, archived)

Oh i dont mean it:)

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:43, archived)

His trolling is making the site look like a racist website.
If it goes a little further, we could all lose our jobs if it were found out we were associated with it.

It's also hateful and unfunny.
( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:42, archived)

You are utterly utterly losing it my friend!

( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:43, archived)

I think he has a point.
There are times when this message board looks like a very unpleasant place, and there are a number of views expressed* that I'm not that comfortable about being associated with.

*maybe in jest, but it's not always easy to tell
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:47, archived)

Even if they are not the views of the poster,
those views are expressed!
That's what words are!
It wouldn't be okay to spraypaint racist remarks on a wall in jest.
( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:50, archived)

Perhaps,
but what you are doing with that comparison is ignoring the context. There is quite clearly a non-serious atmosphere about the place, whereas a public wall is not in a non-serious context.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:54, archived)

This is a public website.
All the time there are racist-looking posts on the board we are turning away nice people or, worse, attracting real racists.
( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:56, archived)

Well, then,
don't fucking visit it at work!

b3ta has, for as long as I've been a member at least, and presumably for as long as you've been a member, featured a large quantity of material that would be awful if it were not in this context. Bad taste/sick jokes are all over the bloody place. There are a lot of far worse things posted on the picture board than on /talk.

If you think you would lose your job for visiting b3ta at work, then take some responsibility for your own actions and don't visit it at work.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:50, archived)

Not like this it hasn't.

( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:51, archived)

If you dont like it then click ignore
And those views you find offensive wont be displayed, if you dont want to ignore then you have no right to complain
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:53, archived)

This is flawed
because I'm worried for the whole site, not just my blood pressure.
edit: and my name still appears on it for everyone else to see.
( Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 13:57, archived)