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)