All right, as long as someone else has brought this up...

The last part of this thread, starting with Alex Anderson's first post here, is a sterling example of the problem I have with the Code of Conduct. When I read that post, I laughed and thought that it was witty enough that I 'search'ed for his previous posts to see what I was missing. Tourguide reads the same post, and issues the guy a warning. I actually felt Alex's reply to the warning was much more offensive than his original post was (which still makes me grin: "...a flaking, a crust to the UGLIER side, where fat women crush men in sex and.. oh god *faints*" -- sounds to me like he's jealous!).

Then Tourguide, applying the 'straw man' theory of argumentation as he is wont to do, goes off on this: "And, if you feel he is correct, then don't look at the pictures. Keep your negative comments to yourself. I don't want to hear them and neither do the people with the guts enough to post them to this site. In fact, if you bothered to READ the Personal Photography thread, you'd see that it comes with its own set of rules. One of which is not to be insulting to the people posting or the people within the photographs taken. The resultant action should have been an immediate ban for you..."

This absolutely astounded me. I rushed off to the Personal Photography thread to find out what Alex could have said to bring on such a reaction and found...nothing. Not even a notice of a deleted post. As near as I can tell, unless Tourguide was reacting to something that had been deleted, he invented an insulting remark, put it in Alex's mouth, then castigated him for it. And this is not the first time he's done that. Alex never mentions either photos posted here or the Personal Photography thread in any of his seven posts, and he certainly never insulted either 'the people posting or the people within the photographs taken'.

In Alex's line, "Im sorry, the BDSM life we see here', the word 'here' clearly refers to the quotation immediately preceding, which he went to the trouble of including so that no one could mistake his meaning.

And that's what I don't like about the Code of Conduct. Alex Anderson gets threatened with a ban over something he didn't do, while Mobius insults people left and right (not since Christmas, though -- good for you) and faces no consequences whatsoever. It was suggested by someone I was having an exchange with in a thread in the upper part of the Forum that humor could be a defense against a charge of violating the Code, but it sure didn't work for Alex.