When the gangs start to gather in a thread and mob "violence" erupts you usually do wade in and defend the victims right to post. I've seen it have a calming affect on threads a few times.
This has happened before, (not the BD calming thing) - the 'pick a number to bash' threads. I recall the thread where Dongalong (I think) was torn limb from limb for breaches of PC-ness - real or percieved.
It and other similar episodes caused a schism here for some time, some members made tearful and grandiose farewells and 'final posts' yet somehow stuck around anyway, others just seemed to fade away.
Once the blood is up, people stop reading what's actually written and a 'vitual' posse, the rest speaks for itself.
It's Human nature I suppose but it's still ugly however you look at it. If the thread is left open it threatens to disrupt the whole board, if it's locked then it's likely to draw calls of big brother-ism and Mod abuse.
People say tactless things here as they do IRL, it deserves drawing to their attention, and sometimes that's enough, or should be. If it's repeated then further action may be necessary, after all as Gilette said we're all supposed to be over 18, sometimes the evidence for that seems thin on the ground.
But it has to be said, the LPSG
'P.C. Police' do appear to just
love an occasional good new fangled virtual lynching!
