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[porcupine48]

Suck it, Canucks

[Ogami]

Question:

In previous bannings, have the contents of PMs been used as evidence?

If so, could those that have received the aforementioned PMs submit them for violation of Rule 6 (a) -

 

You explicitly agree, in using this web site or any service provided, that you shall not:

provide any Content or perform any conduct that may be unlawful, illegal, threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing, stalking, tortuous, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, offensive, objectionable, pornographic, designed to or does interfere or interrupt this web site or any service provided, infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or which may violate an applicable local, national or international law;

 

This is a very good question, and as I said before, Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs. Another point-he willfully disregards George in freely giving out GPA info. And now to find out he posts homophobic and threatening memes to other members on this board OF members of this board.

 

Just wow.

[Bosco685]

This is a very good question, and as I said before, Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs. Another point-he willfully disregards George in freely giving out GPA info. And now to find out he posts homophobic and threatening memes to other members on this board OF members of this board.

 

Just wow.

 

Nate, some of these statements are troubling.

 

1) None of this discussion has anything to do with sales. Yet the General Discussion thread meant to talk about sales general discussion topics is being used to repeatedly beat people down.

 

2) When the GIJOEISAWESOME situation came up, people were posting their PM discussions with him and being cheered on for it - including people that swore in that Graham Comics situation you never post a PM. Yet the hyperbole comment now being made that "Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs" was him posting the threat made by Graham Comics that he wanted to meet him face-to-face at a show for posting the forum guidelines in his sales thread. And Graham Comics did receive a strike for this, so there is something to it. But I have not seen Rupp posting PM discussions "gleefully" and excessively.

 

3) Another troubling thing to learn which was posted yesterday was when Logan510 admitted a small group of people were going through another board member's Photobucket account to see what images had been made of them. Also, that when images of other board members were found, these were sent to those members so as to get them on board. Roy was sent images that now upset him (not fair to Roy). But when I questioned Rupp about the Roy images, he pointed me to the Comics General threads where they were used publicly. With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?

 

Open letter to the Moderation Team

 

All factions of the board must bow down to the heaviest of metal... known only... as Roy.

 

 

4) The GIJOEISAWEOME situation is just plain crazy. But to watch it come together through a vendetta search that just so happened this one time to be right also came with a high level of "creepy" associated with it. So who else is being researched on past sales so a few forumites can judge whether or not others should be allowed to conduct transactions on here?

 

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If Rupp has these other images that are now being used to fire up the masses, it is very troubling. Nobody should want to kill someone else. But it is just as troubling how they were acquired, and how they are being distributed with an end goal in mind: destroy Rupp's reputation permanently on here!

 

THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS!

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[faster friends]

+1 You dudes are out of control. This is for comic discussion not personal issues.

Edited February 15, 2014 by faster friends

[skypinkblu]

This is a very good question, and as I said before, Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs. Another point-he willfully disregards George in freely giving out GPA info. And now to find out he posts homophobic and threatening memes to other members on this board OF members of this board.

 

Just wow.

 

Nate, some of these statements are troubling.

 

1) None of this discussion has anything to do with sales. Yet the General Discussion thread meant to talk about sales general discussion topics is being used to repeatedly beat people down.

 

2) When the GIJOEISAWESOME situation came up, people were posting their PM discussions with him and being cheered on for it - including people that swore in that Graham Comics situation you never post a PM. Yet the hyperbole comment now being made that "Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs" was him posting the threat made by Graham Comics that he wanted to meet him face-to-face at a show for posting the forum guidelines in his sales thread. And Graham Comics did receive a strike for this, so there is something to it. But I have not seen Rupp posting PM discussions "gleefully" and excessively.

 

3) Another troubling thing to learn which was posted yesterday was when Logan510 admitted a small group of people were going through another board member's Photobucket account to see what images had been made of them. Also, that when images of other board members were found, these were sent to those members so as to get them on board. Roy was sent images that now upset him (not fair to Roy). But when I questioned Rupp about the Roy images, he pointed me to the Comics General threads where they were used publicly. With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?

 

Open letter to the Moderation Team

 

All factions of the board must bow down to the heaviest of metal... known only... as Roy.

 

 

4) The GIJOEISAWEOME situation is just plain crazy. But to watch it come together through a vendetta search that just so happened this one time to be right also came with a high level of "creepy" associated with it. So who else is being researched on past sales so a few forumites can judge whether or not others should be allowed to conduct transactions on here?

 

==========================

If Rupp has these other images that are now being used to fire up the masses, it is very troubling. Nobody should want to kill someone else. But it is just as troubling how they were acquired, and how they are being distributed with an end goal in mind: destroy Rupp's reputation permanently on here!

 

THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS!

==========================

 

Nick, I'm sorry, but no matter how those memes were discovered, they are disturbing.

 

I'd like to hear Michael's explanation.

[comix4fun]

. Nobody should want to kill someone else. But it is just as troubling how they were acquired, and how they are being distributed with an end goal in mind: destroy Rupp's reputation permanently on here!

 

 

 

I love you Nick I do, but, if it's true there was a meme or memes that shows a boardie's (who Rupp does not like, is not friends with, has tangled with in the past) Avatar being murdered while homophobic slurs are written over it, I don't find the fact that people saw those memes, in a reportedly public photo-bucket account, and were upset enough to share them as "just as troubling".

 

I've seen all the memes you posted here and that were on the boards in the threads you mention, based on the descriptions posted in this thread about the offensive ones about Roy, Sean, and Casey, I don't think the ones you are describing as benign are the same ones people are talking about. The ones here seem comedic and not purely insulting.

 

There are other, purely insulting memes it seems. I've been trying to avoid seeing them but if the characterization is that the memes he created are equivalent to the ones posted here then perhaps I (and others) need to seem them all to make up our minds. Based on the descriptions I really wanted to avoid that.

 

Creating memes centered around the murder of boardies in avatar-effigy is the most troubling thing I've ever seen on these boards and that's not hyperbole.

[Old Fashion PB and J]

I agree with Chris. I can tell you now, I would not take light of the situation. It seems that there are some seriously screwed up folks here. I would think that this should be grounds for a banning, and I do not even know who is being discussed.

[Old Fashion PB and J]

I just read the whole thread. I would be IRATE if I had seen anything posted about my wife, my suicide, the gay one I would probably laugh. But the others are no-no's. Very low class.

[Bosco685]

. Nobody should want to kill someone else. But it is just as troubling how they were acquired, and how they are being distributed with an end goal in mind: destroy Rupp's reputation permanently on here!

 

 

 

I love you Nick I do, but, if it's true there was a meme or memes that shows a boardie's (who Rupp does not like, is not friends with, has tangled with in the past) Avatar being murdered while homophobic slurs are written over it, I don't find the fact that people saw those memes, in a reportedly public photo-bucket account, and were upset enough to share them as "just as troubling".

 

I've seen all the memes you posted here and that were on the boards in the threads you mention, based on the descriptions posted in this thread about the offensive ones about Roy, Sean, and Casey, I don't think the ones you are describing as benign are the same ones people are talking about. The ones here seem comedic and not purely insulting.

 

There are other, purely insulting memes it seems. I've been trying to avoid seeing them but if the characterization is that the memes he created are equivalent to the ones posted here then perhaps I (and others) need to seem them all to make up our minds. Based on the descriptions I really wanted to avoid that.

 

Creating memes centered around the murder of boardies in avatar-effigy is the most troubling thing I've ever seen on these boards and that's not hyperbole.

 

Fair enough, Chris. I see what you mean in that one action is not worse than another. Conveying murder doesn't get ruled out by someone hunting for these details.

 

I'll stay out of it and let Rupp follow through with an explanation. But I would hope the same sensitivity on what is being discussed is applied to others. Mentioning he gleefully posts PM's is just adding wood to the fire, and not about the chief concern: death photos.

[THE_BEYONDER]

This thread is chock full of fail.....

[seanfingh]

With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?=

 

I've been trying to stay away from this. But now the classic "She was asking for it" defense has been trotted out, and to that I say

 

 

The only thing that this post proves is people really do identify other people on these boards by their avatar. And while at first, I tried to blow this whole thing off, the more people try to defend it the scarier it becomes.

[GACollectibles]

the more people try to defend it the scarier it becomes.

 

How can there be anything TO defend?

 

People may not be able to get along, that's understandable. For someone that has publicly griped about being trolled or purposefully pursued with attempts to engage him in arguments to then expend the energy for such negative bashing(whether in PM or not) is more than ironic, and based on what I've seen, appalling.

 

[Ogami]

This is a very good question, and as I said before, Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs. Another point-he willfully disregards George in freely giving out GPA info. And now to find out he posts homophobic and threatening memes to other members on this board OF members of this board.

 

Just wow.

 

Nate, some of these statements are troubling.

 

1) None of this discussion has anything to do with sales. Yet the General Discussion thread meant to talk about sales general discussion topics is being used to repeatedly beat people down.

 

2) When the GIJOEISAWESOME situation came up, people were posting their PM discussions with him and being cheered on for it - including people that swore in that Graham Comics situation you never post a PM. Yet the hyperbole comment now being made that "Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs" was him posting the threat made by Graham Comics that he wanted to meet him face-to-face at a show for posting the forum guidelines in his sales thread. And Graham Comics did receive a strike for this, so there is something to it. But I have not seen Rupp posting PM discussions "gleefully" and excessively.

 

3) Another troubling thing to learn which was posted yesterday was when Logan510 admitted a small group of people were going through another board member's Photobucket account to see what images had been made of them. Also, that when images of other board members were found, these were sent to those members so as to get them on board. Roy was sent images that now upset him (not fair to Roy). But when I questioned Rupp about the Roy images, he pointed me to the Comics General threads where they were used publicly. With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?

 

Open letter to the Moderation Team

 

All factions of the board must bow down to the heaviest of metal... known only... as Roy.

 

 

4) The GIJOEISAWEOME situation is just plain crazy. But to watch it come together through a vendetta search that just so happened this one time to be right also came with a high level of "creepy" associated with it. So who else is being researched on past sales so a few forumites can judge whether or not others should be allowed to conduct transactions on here?

 

==========================

If Rupp has these other images that are now being used to fire up the masses, it is very troubling. Nobody should want to kill someone else. But it is just as troubling how they were acquired, and how they are being distributed with an end goal in mind: destroy Rupp's reputation permanently on here!

 

THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS!

==========================

 

That's certainly one answer to the questions, and a fine defense of a friend.

[lizards2]

This thread is chock full of fail.....

 

We seem to excel at that.

[Bosco685]

With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?=

 

I've been trying to stay away from this. But now the classic "She was asking for it" defense has been trotted out, and to that I say

 

 

The only thing that this post proves is people really do identify other people on these boards by their avatar. And while at first, I tried to blow this whole thing off, the more people try to defend it the scarier it becomes.

 

I told Chris I would stay out of the discussion where Rupp needs to explain the other images being mentioned.

 

On this one, nobody said 'she was asking for it' though you attempt to convey that message. Roy seemed to be upset because he though there were hidden images created that now were sent to him. What I am aware of were in CG threads, and people involved even laughed about their avatars being included.

 

So no, the message is not if it is funny to post in light images, let's go for something more wild. That is not acceptable.

[seanfingh]

With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?=

 

I've been trying to stay away from this. But now the classic "She was asking for it" defense has been trotted out, and to that I say

 

 

The only thing that this post proves is people really do identify other people on these boards by their avatar. And while at first, I tried to blow this whole thing off, the more people try to defend it the scarier it becomes.

 

I told Chris I would stay out of the discussion where Rupp needs to explain the other images being mentioned.

 

On this one, nobody said 'she was asking for it' though you attempt to convey that message. Roy seemed to be upset because he though there were hidden images created that now were sent to him. What I am aware of were in CG threads, and people involved even laughed about their avatars being included.

 

So no, the message is not if it is funny to post in light images, let's go for something more wild. That is not acceptable.

 

I am not going to engage you any further, unless you try, again, to somehow state that the memes about my avatar having chunks of bone and blood blasted out the other side of its head are somehow OK because months ago it was funny when the same head was put on a Heavy Metal mag for comedic effect.

[lizards2]

Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs.

 

I seem to frequently miss parts of this site where all these 'board rules' are posted - please direct me to where the rules regarding PMs are posted.

[Bosco685]

With one of them that included Seanfingh's and Park's avatar images, they laughed and cheered it on. Seanfingh said 'my body is bumpin' because it was the Heat Miser head on a woman's body. So see how hyperbole can lead to misperception when history is forgotten?=

 

I've been trying to stay away from this. But now the classic "She was asking for it" defense has been trotted out, and to that I say

 

 

The only thing that this post proves is people really do identify other people on these boards by their avatar. And while at first, I tried to blow this whole thing off, the more people try to defend it the scarier it becomes.

 

I told Chris I would stay out of the discussion where Rupp needs to explain the other images being mentioned.

 

On this one, nobody said 'she was asking for it' though you attempt to convey that message. Roy seemed to be upset because he though there were hidden images created that now were sent to him. What I am aware of were in CG threads, and people involved even laughed about their avatars being included.

 

So no, the message is not if it is funny to post in light images, let's go for something more wild. That is not acceptable.

 

I am not going to engage you any further, unless you try, again, to somehow state that the memes about my avatar having chunks of bone and blood blasted out the other side of its head are somehow OK because months ago it was funny when the same head was put on a Heavy Metal mag for comedic effect.

 

If there are images floating around conveying death to a fellow board member, it is extremely disturbing. There isn't even anything funny with a message like that. And if it was done to me, I would be concerned what the next step may be for this person. A knock at my door while my family is home?

 

But let's stick to that point. Not these other comments that have nothing to do with the chief concern.

[comix4fun]

Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs.

 

I seem to frequently miss parts of this site where all these 'board rules' are posted - please direct me to where the rules regarding PMs are posted.

 

 

I am guessing about 20 posts up, posted as a question, it doesn't mention that the offending information has to be in a public post just "in using this website and any service provided":

 

But it's a question only the mods can answer.

 

Question:

In previous bannings, have the contents of PMs been used as evidence?

If so, could those that have received the aforementioned PMs submit them for violation of Rule 6 (a) -

 

You explicitly agree, in using this web site or any service provided, that you shall not:

provide any Content or perform any conduct that may be unlawful, illegal, threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing, stalking, tortuous, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, offensive, objectionable, pornographic, designed to or does interfere or interrupt this web site or any service provided, infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or which may violate an applicable local, national or international law;

 

[lizards2]

Rupp has gleefully exposed PMs before when it suits him. He has no regard for board rules concerning PMs.

 

I seem to frequently miss parts of this site where all these 'board rules' are posted - please direct me to where the rules regarding PMs are posted.

 

 

I am guessing about 20 posts up, posted as a question, it doesn't mention that the offending information has to be in a public post just "in using this website and any service provided":

 

But it's a question only the mods can answer.

 

Question:

In previous bannings, have the contents of PMs been used as evidence?

If so, could those that have received the aforementioned PMs submit them for violation of Rule 6 (a) -

 

You explicitly agree, in using this web site or any service provided, that you shall not:

provide any Content or perform any conduct that may be unlawful, illegal, threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing, stalking, tortuous, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, offensive, objectionable, pornographic, designed to or does interfere or interrupt this web site or any service provided, infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or which may violate an applicable local, national or international law;

I'm talking about the rule about exposing pms that he mentioned.