Besides the post I am basing this thread on, (Which you can see be clicking the "View Original Post" link at the top of this thread) [quote]Of course context is important, but this is the internet - its very nature makes us lose some context. And quite frankly, saying it is okay to call someone a "fag" because you're joking around is BS. That's exactly the same thing as saying it is okay to call someone the n-word because you're just joking, or saying it is okay to use the term -blam!- when talking about beating someone in a game rather than forcing someone into a sexual act. Context is important, but that context mostly should dictate the consequence to the user who posted it, not necessarily if content should be removed or not. I don't care that "everybody" does it. You should be better than that. You diminish yourself every time you such slurs, even in jest. I challenge you to be better.[/quote] we have this quote from Achronos in the same sub-thread, "Unfortunately, we cannot see everything, and that's why we have reports to supplement the usual moderator powers (which they still have)." So, surely, the reports must work and People will get those well-deserved bans! HOORAY! Right? NO! If you do this again you're going to go right back to the way the old site is and give even more people reason to purposefully seek out bans, easily avoid them and do it again for even bigger self-hilarity and people view it as some kind of achievement. We're going to have what we have now and make the other useful systems useless, and get people banned mistakenly, again. This site was seriously almost perfect. When the new site and the relaxed rules cam it made the site so much better. We had better discussions than the old site could have never had. What's my point with this thread? Well, let's discuss that last part right now. Look at the link bar now. That was a reported thread insinuating I am retarded. Attached to it has been a semi-popular thread days old no ninja could have possibly missed blatantly calling me disabled. So, Sparkles gets a ban over a joke about harming someone, something 80% of this forum has done without bans or outcry like his thread got, but two threads with offensive content, one of which was reported over a day ago, are left unchanged. Am I upset at these threads? Do I think those obvious morons should be banned? Hell no. I don't give a rat's behind what they say. I didn't even report either thread and one still got reported. I even went in both and had fun proving them wrong. If I was so bothered, guess what? I'd mute them. Instead, I've chosen not to let strangers control my emotions. I have too much character to let some kids bother me, and I would NOT ask either of them be banned. I don't even ask for their threads to be hidden. I want Sparkles to have been left alone for his obvious joke. Web-team, you guys are about to repeat history. It's not too late to change your minds and really make this site perfect. Removing the report system and bans entirely (Other than for illegal activity, legitimate personal threats etc.) and make this community handle its own problems. Or, if you want to stick with the known system that has failed before, then give everyone else that has made threats bans. (About 80% of this forum) Just my thoughts. We'll see what happens. PEACE! (I had to change some things around and the edits were getting glitchy, I realized one of those threads the user was banned, still irrelevant to my main points here)