Sleepless;

Thank you for your useful and timely help and understanding. Your lack of compassion is overwhelming.

I believe this is an open forum for discussing anything. If you had read and understood my original thread, I was venting. As I said, I had no way of knowing, and still don't, what is and isn't explicit material. I stay away from anything that even remotely seems out of place.

As a moderator, I believe you accept the responsibility for your responses.
They should not be critical, harsh, blaming, or cynical. I appreciate the time and energy it takes to volunteer in any venue. I have also done volunteer work and found it most rewarding. Regardless, I will not have it inferred that I am stupid or lazy. I have been working with computers for the past 15 years and most problems I solve myself. One, because it helps me understand the inner workings of my computer and programs, and two, it gives me a great sense of accomplishment to fix things on my own.

But the issue here is pornography. It's a problem that undermines the internet as a whole and is dangerous and potentially hazardous to all. I will live the rest of my life with that image burned into my memory. This is not something I look forward to. As I said, I am the victim here. I didn't ask for this nor was there any way to know what I was downloading. This was a .jpeg file and seemed harmeless enough. Nor am I naive. I was the unknowning recipient of offensive material. Rather than threaten me to ban me from the Gnutella site, we should be working to find a solution to stop the proliferation on the internet of pornography in any form in any program. If you have an answer to that it would be most helpful.

This is my first foray into a forum type site. I have the First Amendment right to express my opinions and views and don't take kindly to the threat of having them curtailed. As a moderator you wield your power like a kid that's found his father's gun. It's dangerous and goes against every principle I can think of for an open forum.

In any case, the threat of banning me from this site is moot. I will no longer take part in this forum ever again. If I come to a roadblock with a problem with my computer htat I can't solve on my own, I will seek help elsewhere.

itsbrkn

you've been warned....

1: you should have replied to the original thread

2: gnutella users also have the 'First Amendment' right to legally express their views as is reflected in what is in there shares (which you seem to have a hypocritical problem with)

the only way for the network to be legal is to exist without controls, yet you suggest implementing said controls, which means you advocate the dissolution of the network...

I feel for you as far as your reaction to what you experienced, but that is about all...and even then my compassion is very limited as afaic legal types of porn are not an issue, and in fact people like you who hate any type of porn are an issue...you are the minority, and your offense indicates a very repressed childhood...your views are of course your right, but that does not give you the right to beat a dead horse on a privately hosted forum...

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I know you were venting and I had no problem with that. I purposely ignored your thread for that very reason. I think you are mistaken the moderators here for kids. I can tell you that you are wrong, and most if not all of them are adults. I have moderated before doing it here. Unlike what you might think, I am probably older than you.

But you are lazy, not taking the time to see that what Remoc said was entirely true, instead you attacked him. As a moderator I am responsible for making sure personal attacks do not escalate, something I saw happening there.

When you attack a moderator, there are consequences. Something that happened in your previous thread, where BTW you didn't even get an official warning. You were told to behave civilized or there would be consequences, and now you continue to do so. If you weren't ready to let it go, then you could have had sent me a PM or if you had a complaint about your treatment, you could have reported it.

Distributing pornography isn't illegal. While some people don't like it, they have a choice to not see it. A choice you chose to ignore by using the Gnutella network to download random photographs instead of using a proper venue for this e.g. Google image search with content filter turned on.

Newsflash. The First Amendment right does not apply to a privately owned forum, although if you had been civilized in your opinions and views, there would have been no problem at all. Moderators are put in place to ensure that this forum does not break any laws and rules, and also to make sure that discussions are kept civilized. In my time as moderator here I have used that power twice to warn people that were taking things too far and never banned anyone.

Well since you can't behave in a civilized manner when you encounter some problem, then good riddance.

Regards


Sleepless