All right, you dumb shits.

[silverthorne]

What's so hard to understand about 'Your default icon cannot be something that, if the wrong person happens to look at the screen at the wrong time, they can get offended by it and cause problems for the person using the computer that your controversial icon just popped up on'?

What's so hard to understand that it's the same standard as, say, rating a film that they're using? Hmn?

Some people work at jobs, where, even though they're allowed internet access, will still get FIRED if things like nakkid bodies, urinating, breast nipples, questionable acts (like, oh, FUCKING, or even just the HINT of fucking) WILL GET THESE PEOPLE FIRED. And a LOT of businesses employ software that can tell the computer geeks EXACTLY what you're looking at on your screen.

MOST professional places in fact have very very STRICT rules about this. Why? Because they're professional places with a reputation to upkeep for the general public. The same reputation that USUALLY follows the standards of 'no sex, no cussing, no nakkid bodies, no politically inflammatory statements, no...'. You get the idea.

Yes, breast feeding, pissing, fucking, licking your goat affectionately--all NATURAL.

Also all BIG FUCKING NO-NO's when flung out to the general public. That includes the work place. Or the public library where some four year old kid with uber conservative parents might be walking past and just happen to look at the screen at that moment. Or that really unhappy person who hates you and just wants ONE little excuse to make you life miserable.

Or some conservative group looking for reasons to shut LJ itself down.

Stop being ignorant hose beasts just because you have to actually click a few times to be able to share your own particular bathroom humor or 'liberal sore spot' of the day. Cut it out with the asinine icons, too.

Use some fucking brains--you aren't the only ones getting 'inconvenienced'. And someone somewhere just may pay the price for YOUR douche-bag arrogance.

Fuck off and die.

Thank you.

Tired of the idiocy.

--Me.

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Right there with you. That's what pissed me off most. That there was an entitlement issue. The person who defriended me just saw me namecalling and apparently intentionally trying to hurt feelings. Which shows she wasn't really paying attention. I tend to strike back, but I don't go for first blood on purpose.

I was saying to me the boycotts and temp-deletes came across like a customer who called asking for a promo they knew full well was for "new customers only". When I'd tell them "sorry, new customers only," they'd say "Okay, cancel my service." I'd cancel for them because they'd be insistent.

And they'd wait a week or two and call back expecting to be treated like a new customer and then get the promo.

And exactly. I mean that should go without saying that Six Apart isn't just doing it to be oppressive. There's thought and common sense behind their decision.

And agreed with you about the low profile. For a while there, every week we were hearing on the news about some sexual predator or another getting busted through setting up appointments, dates, and trysts on MySpace.

My MOSH icon is not actually visibly anti-Bush but anyone who's seen the video knows it could be construed that way and if they wanted to portray it that way to the right person -- that'd be it for me.

But I'm the bad person for going over the top to point out how over the top they were going.

Thanks, hon. This conversation has really helped me get some perspective, and I feel a little better about being defriended by someone I thought thought well of me. I'm better off if she can't see past her offense and can only tar me with the same brush of words she's sticking in my mouth.