Question to the vital community: What’s over the line on this forum?

#434
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In a silly argument about eMX bikes a forum member drop this on me

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implying that I’m the type of guy that would gladly get on the railcar to a concentration camp and enter the gas chambers with a smile on my face.

For me, an insult belittling the holocaust is very far over the line. I reported this post twice to the admins. Since it’s been a few weeks and nothing happened, I wanted to ask the forum members if a post like that is acceptable.

For everybody that needs to refresh their memory about the subject, check this link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard There you can read for yourself how Nazi Germany deported millions of jews and others to concentration and extermination camps in the east, where almost all of them were murdered, many of them in gas chamber disguised as shower rooms. 

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Sandusky26
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2/23/2023 2:38am

You and Byron post you're E bike stuff in the E bike forum and problem solved.

Gas bike guys don't feel the need for attention.

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Joey Bridges
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2/23/2023 2:50am

You're right. 

It's a silly argument. 

Grow a set.

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fanger
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2/23/2023 3:06am

Fuck is this shit?

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2/23/2023 3:23am

If you’d get decked by it at the pub, then it’s over the line 👍

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The Shop

2/23/2023 4:29am

That guy gets worked up pretty easily.. I’d just ignore him

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Turbojez
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2/23/2023 4:38am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 4:40am
#434 wrote:
In a silly argument about eMX bikes a forum member drop this on me implying that I’m the type of guy that would gladly get on...

In a silly argument about eMX bikes a forum member drop this on me

87575674-0036-4991-BC33-1DEBBC0EC100

implying that I’m the type of guy that would gladly get on the railcar to a concentration camp and enter the gas chambers with a smile on my face.

For me, an insult belittling the holocaust is very far over the line. I reported this post twice to the admins. Since it’s been a few weeks and nothing happened, I wanted to ask the forum members if a post like that is acceptable.

For everybody that needs to refresh their memory about the subject, check this link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard There you can read for yourself how Nazi Germany deported millions of jews and others to concentration and extermination camps in the east, where almost all of them were murdered, many of them in gas chamber disguised as shower rooms. 

Over the line IMO, I am quite sure he wouldn't have said that in a face to face conversation which should be taken as a criteria to what's appropriate and what's not.

To guys saying "grow balls" - This is exactly what people being asshats on the internet should do. Talking sh*t in real world makes you a tough guy only if you address a bigger guy with those words. On the internet or aimed towards smaller man/woman it always makes you come out a small dick energy emanating b*tch.

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Joey Bridges
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2/23/2023 4:48am
Turbojez wrote:
Over the line IMO, I am quite sure he wouldn't have said that in a face to face conversation which should be taken as a criteria...

Over the line IMO, I am quite sure he wouldn't have said that in a face to face conversation which should be taken as a criteria to what's appropriate and what's not.

To guys saying "grow balls" - This is exactly what people being asshats on the internet should do. Talking sh*t in real world makes you a tough guy only if you address a bigger guy with those words. On the internet or aimed towards smaller man/woman it always makes you come out a small dick energy emanating b*tch.

Telling someone to, grow a set, is basically telling them to not let words on the internet hurt your little feelings.

 

And...

It would be interesting to see the full transcript of what was being said by the OP before being told of his hypothetical transportation desires. 

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Gravel
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2/23/2023 5:02am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 5:07am

That’s a crappy, kinda jerky, thing to say, but you’ll survive it just fine if you want to.

Screaming “Nazi” is getting really old..

Whatever the owner / moderator of the forum decides is the law in this case. 

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2/23/2023 5:07am

Unless you are a snowflake you shouldn't get mad. On the other hand if you are a decent human being, you don't say stuff like that. 

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2/23/2023 5:14am

I think if you motorcycle needs to smell or sound a certain way in order for you to enjoy it, you may struggle with your manhood. 
 

 I think if that post offends you, you need thicker skin and would’ve never lasted here 10 years ago. 

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HerlingsFTW
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2/23/2023 5:16am

have u tried vagisan?

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2/23/2023 5:24am

have u tried vagisan?

Quoted so I can laugh twice..

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2/23/2023 5:26am

It’s the interwebz, why do people care what others think so much.  Just ignore it. Some people won’t do it in real life so they use the computer to talk trash.  
 

it’s like TV, if you don’t like what’s on- Change the channel.  

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#434
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2/23/2023 5:28am
Turbojez wrote:
Over the line IMO, I am quite sure he wouldn't have said that in a face to face conversation which should be taken as a criteria...

Over the line IMO, I am quite sure he wouldn't have said that in a face to face conversation which should be taken as a criteria to what's appropriate and what's not.

To guys saying "grow balls" - This is exactly what people being asshats on the internet should do. Talking sh*t in real world makes you a tough guy only if you address a bigger guy with those words. On the internet or aimed towards smaller man/woman it always makes you come out a small dick energy emanating b*tch.

Telling someone to, grow a set, is basically telling them to not let words on the internet hurt your little feelings.   And... It would be...

Telling someone to, grow a set, is basically telling them to not let words on the internet hurt your little feelings.

 

And...

It would be interesting to see the full transcript of what was being said by the OP before being told of his hypothetical transportation desires. 

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Richy
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2/23/2023 5:32am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 5:33am

It is what it is.

A difference in opinion followed by a dickhead comment. Pretty much standard internet.

If I was Jewish and someone said it to my face I'm sure I'd chin them, but I'm not and they didn't, so what can you do.

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2/23/2023 5:44am

I would put your purse down and move on. 

 

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WTF_M8
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2/23/2023 5:46am

Whatever.

Being offended is just so... so, well    I just can't even.

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2/23/2023 5:48am
McG194 wrote:

Unless you are a snowflake you shouldn't get mad. On the other hand if you are a decent human being, you don't say stuff like that. 

hit the nail on the head. 

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2/23/2023 5:48am

People are assholes on the internet. If what this guy said to you hurt you so bad then stay off of it. 

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2/23/2023 5:59am
#434 wrote:
In a silly argument about eMX bikes a forum member drop this on me implying that I’m the type of guy that would gladly get on...

In a silly argument about eMX bikes a forum member drop this on me

87575674-0036-4991-BC33-1DEBBC0EC100

implying that I’m the type of guy that would gladly get on the railcar to a concentration camp and enter the gas chambers with a smile on my face.

For me, an insult belittling the holocaust is very far over the line. I reported this post twice to the admins. Since it’s been a few weeks and nothing happened, I wanted to ask the forum members if a post like that is acceptable.

For everybody that needs to refresh their memory about the subject, check this link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard There you can read for yourself how Nazi Germany deported millions of jews and others to concentration and extermination camps in the east, where almost all of them were murdered, many of them in gas chamber disguised as shower rooms. 

It clearly wasn't an antisemitic or pro-nazi statement, and it bothers me more that you are trying to spin it into that, than what he actually said. Was it something that he might not say in real life? Maybe.

 

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2/23/2023 6:01am

And also referencing the holocaust is not banned speech. You are acting like the world should stop and take action for this dude making a reference. 

 

Thank you for rAiSiNg aWaReNeSs 

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2/23/2023 6:15am

That guy has some of the worst takes here and is always overly combative with people he disagrees with. Comparing e-bike adoption to the holocaust has got to be one of his all time worst though. Definitely a bad look for him. 

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2/23/2023 6:17am

You're such a woman lol

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2/23/2023 6:49am

I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he?

he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame. 
 

he’s just saying that you are a pushover.

don’t be so weak.

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2/23/2023 7:03am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 7:09am
I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he? he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame.    he’s just saying that you...

I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he?

he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame. 
 

he’s just saying that you are a pushover.

don’t be so weak.

On the one hand you have a family that is uprooted from their home and forced onto a train car at gunpoint unknowing they are being transported to a gas chamber to meet their death.

On the other hand you have an overzealous consumer excited about a new product that may or may not ever be a thing.

To compare one to the other in an attempt to win a point in an internet argument takes a pretty depraved mind. Sometimes you step back and take inventory of the situation and admit, yeah, I may have gone a little too far there.  That idiot doubled down.

But unfortunately participation on the internet does not require a minimum amount of class. Just have to shake your head and move on.

 

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2/23/2023 7:05am

That guy gets worked up pretty easily.. I’d just ignore him

Seems like they both do. 

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WTF_M8
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2/23/2023 7:06am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 7:08am
I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he? he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame.    he’s just saying that you...

I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he?

he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame. 
 

he’s just saying that you are a pushover.

don’t be so weak.

GrapeApe wrote:
On the one hand you have a family that is uprooted from their home and forced onto a train car at gunpoint unknowing they are being...

On the one hand you have a family that is uprooted from their home and forced onto a train car at gunpoint unknowing they are being transported to a gas chamber to meet their death.

On the other hand you have an overzealous consumer excited about a new product that may or may not ever be a thing.

To compare one to the other in an attempt to win a point in an internet argument takes a pretty depraved mind. Sometimes you step back and take inventory of the situation and admit, yeah, I may have gone a little too far there.  That idiot doubled down.

But unfortunately participation on the internet does not require a minimum amount of class. Just have to shake your head and move on.

 

You are reading too much into it.

 

"Depraved mind" ????

 

Jeeezus! I hope you stay away from comedy.

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2/23/2023 7:07am

I would put your purse down and move on. 

 

Hit him with your purse!!

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GrapeApe
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2/23/2023 7:09am Edited Date/Time 2/23/2023 10:34am
I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he? he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame.    he’s just saying that you...

I don’t know that’s he’s belittling the holocaust is he?

he’s not saying the holocaust was something funny or lame. 
 

he’s just saying that you are a pushover.

don’t be so weak.

GrapeApe wrote:
On the one hand you have a family that is uprooted from their home and forced onto a train car at gunpoint unknowing they are being...

On the one hand you have a family that is uprooted from their home and forced onto a train car at gunpoint unknowing they are being transported to a gas chamber to meet their death.

On the other hand you have an overzealous consumer excited about a new product that may or may not ever be a thing.

To compare one to the other in an attempt to win a point in an internet argument takes a pretty depraved mind. Sometimes you step back and take inventory of the situation and admit, yeah, I may have gone a little too far there.  That idiot doubled down.

But unfortunately participation on the internet does not require a minimum amount of class. Just have to shake your head and move on.

 

WTF_M8 wrote:

You are reading too much into it.

 

"Depraved mind" ????

 

Jeeezus! I hope you stay away from comedy.

.

 

Oh cool, you again

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2/23/2023 7:25am

I have never seen that account post something that actually contributes to a conversation. Usually, just some irrelevant comment that detracts from the actual topic at hand. 

Probably the same type of person that comments on every "news" post that comes across his fb feed with some off-the-wall response trying to tie to a political argument lol. 

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