The English language is capable of endless nuance. If you can't convey tone, just get better at writing.

You also shouldn't get in the habit of undercutting everything you say. It's ok to say something and mean it. If you don't take yourself seriously, other people won't take you seriously.

Besides, when you are joking, it's funnier when you don't wink. Winking is for suckers.

That makes sense for allowing beep to stay. I still don't think it's the right move given the extreme level of bad faith in which he operated, but ok, you guys are making a point about objectivity. Rules shouldn't apply ex post facto to members of the community.

However. Rules should and typically do apply ex post facto to content. If I dig up an old comic with the word "fuck" in it that was never removed, would you remove it now that curse words are allowed? Or would you say there's no current rule against it, so it stays?

I'm sure it would stay. Common sense wins out in that case, just as it should in the other case.

The point of having rules around content isn't to punish users who break the rules. It's to shape this place into the community we want it to be. If we want it to be a community that respects artists, then we need to remove the content that's so blatantly and aggressively disrespectful to artists.

Posts that broke the per-day rule or the old NSFW rule aren't harming anyone. But these posts that are an intentional perversion of a creator's art, removing their name and in some cases surreptitiously modifying the content of the picture, are passively harming those artists every day that they exist in this community. You're leaving them out there to be found and disseminated, to supercede the artist's original work.

I seriously doubt the community values artist integrity less than "hundreds of existing discussions" about what an asshole the poster is, so I think this should be a pretty easy stance to take.

You improve nothing and create nothing.

Did you end up removing his posts with the altered comics? Or are they still out there to disseminate his inferior versions across the internet?

And just to be clear, I think not banning beep is an idea with no upside.

Weird. There wasn't any attribution for you to remove, and yet you edited it anyway.

Personally I'd say it's the hero being an orphaned "chosen one", or maybe the damsel in distress trope. But maybe it depends on what kind of media you consume.

The title makes it sound like the body was there for a week.

The body was there for a few hours while they sent the employees back to work. Then it was removed. Then they hid it for a week.

I am aware of at least one real instance of this happening. Not the hat burning, but my wife is Facebook friends with an old coworker of hers who is self-identified MAGA. This is his latest post, under the Trump/Jesus picture:

Always been a fan of the guy, but the last 3-4 months I've lost all respect for him. Has turned into Israel's puppet with this war, turned the entire world against us by joining a side that is quite literally murdering thousands of innocents left and right in Gaza and Lebanon, and now posting this blasphemous shit, on the day of Orthodox Easter, no less. Fuck him.

I don't know if this is happening in numbers significant enough for it to matter, but it's one real case.

Thumbnail looks like a bloodhound.

Just in case anyone hadn't heard this one before: Abcde is pronounced "Absidy", which is more of a real name.

How?

The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.

There's actually another way to keep the population up, and it's great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.