Originally posted by: Jay

Originally posted by: ricarleite
I disagree with you there Jay. You can't compare one of the most horrible and memorable moments of human history with a forum troll.

Don't overreact. It was an analogy, not a direct comparison.

Everyone needs to calm down. If I locked a thread every time someone expressed a bit of apprehension towards the topic, this place would be empty.

AWK isn't Voldemort, and we're not going to elevate him to that status.

I know that I've said I would not post here again, but every single time I make such promise I have the tendency of breaking it. But since this topic has changed from AWK into the whole "dead thread" discussion and its implications, I feel it's still valid for it to go on.

First of all, I belive everyone's calm. And I agree and understand it was merely an analogy, but what I feel you expressed on it is that we shouldn't just keep ourselves quiet because someone came over and done something we disaproove. But I don't feel your analogy is entirely valid because the holocaust is an important historical fact, and a forum troll isn't. We are not elevating him to any status of any sort, I feel we are doing the opposite here.

On some threads we have come into heated discussions in which one ore more parts disagreed and had this aprehension towards what was being discussed, the politic discussions are such examples, and we've never come close of locking the thread just for that. Our thread locking has been used only in, basically, trolling - useless or senseless topics and offensive discussions. And I particularly feel that discussing the behaviour of someone who has done such things is also senseless, as there is no real point. Can such conversation evolve beyond the whole "I hated him, he did this and that"? Wouldn't that be an open invitation for this behaviour, as it shows we are shaken by this trolling episodes? Well, I know I've contributed with my part on the futility of it, with these two posts of mine on this thread, and for that I apologise. But I was merely expressing my opinion, the same way the owner of this thread was clearly doing. I don't condemn him for starting this thread or anything, but he is now aware of who AWK was.

I've always defended and praised freedom of speech, and let's not mix up both. It's like the analogy I've done with suicide. Like, take that live TV suicide by that north american politician, Budd something. Later that day some TV stations broadcasted the whole thing, some showed only a few scenes, some refused to air any images of it. Why? Because it serves no point. That's what I was trying to say...