Let's play "Click on the anime girls"
Tuesday, 21. July 2009, 03:12:38
Browsing my.Opera is always fun, there's such a much more colorful and varied mix of folks on here, and they all seem smarter than the average bear. I always tend to click on random pictures of animu girls (don't judge me) in the hopes of finding some like-minded weeaboo. Sadly, almost all of the people who wear the mask of an anime girl are usually flaming perverts who enjoy dumping their softcore collection, who could've guessed?
One of the finer points of my.opera is the way a user's page looks when they're banned:
Now, most banned user pages are either extremely overt or nonexistent. Small sites or larger, "edgy" sites tend to take the most overt approach possible; slapping a big, red "USER WAS BANNED FOR THEIR BULLSHIT" across everything said user has ever contributed to the site, utterly obliterating any sort of clout they may have had before they pulled a dumbass, there may be a neat little reason why under the angry red letters just to further invalidate the banned person. Nothing makes you more of an irrelevant bad guy like "Banned for uploading drawn kiddie porn" under every single post you have ever made. Of course this depends on the community you attend, you may be lauded as a hero and a martyr depending on the folks you rub shoulders with.
On the other end of the spectrum are the massive sites and the professional sites, they don't want the trouble and they don't want to associate their community with such riffraff. Once you are banned on a site like MySpace or the like you become a nonperson, and for good reason, a dumbass in a large community can become a martyr in an instant, handle things wrong and you could have a rebellion. Nailing a man to a cross in a small community usually won't spark even a bat of an eyelid, nailing a man to a cross in a huge community will make the man a martyr. So how do you combat this? Simply make them disappear, a person who never existed can't cause a post-ban uprising, so to speak. Delete all their posts, their pictures, and the internet will forget about them, peachy.
So, wait, what the hell am I babbling about? Internet communities? I guess this really IS 1984 week. Anyway, back to Opera's little ban page, it has something so many other ban pages lack, a dose of subtlety and HUGE amount of things left unspoken. The light blue and the serene imagery suggest something downright sinister behind the scenes. When you're banned from somewhere else, you are either silently cast out or dragged to the stocks to have rancid vegetables thrown at you; when you're banned from my.Opera you're taken out back with a .22 and shot down like the rabid dog you are. So much shame, sadness, and sinister subtleties in one god damn ban page.
Bravo, Opera, you've scared me shitless.
One of the finer points of my.opera is the way a user's page looks when they're banned:
Now, most banned user pages are either extremely overt or nonexistent. Small sites or larger, "edgy" sites tend to take the most overt approach possible; slapping a big, red "USER WAS BANNED FOR THEIR BULLSHIT" across everything said user has ever contributed to the site, utterly obliterating any sort of clout they may have had before they pulled a dumbass, there may be a neat little reason why under the angry red letters just to further invalidate the banned person. Nothing makes you more of an irrelevant bad guy like "Banned for uploading drawn kiddie porn" under every single post you have ever made. Of course this depends on the community you attend, you may be lauded as a hero and a martyr depending on the folks you rub shoulders with.
On the other end of the spectrum are the massive sites and the professional sites, they don't want the trouble and they don't want to associate their community with such riffraff. Once you are banned on a site like MySpace or the like you become a nonperson, and for good reason, a dumbass in a large community can become a martyr in an instant, handle things wrong and you could have a rebellion. Nailing a man to a cross in a small community usually won't spark even a bat of an eyelid, nailing a man to a cross in a huge community will make the man a martyr. So how do you combat this? Simply make them disappear, a person who never existed can't cause a post-ban uprising, so to speak. Delete all their posts, their pictures, and the internet will forget about them, peachy.
So, wait, what the hell am I babbling about? Internet communities? I guess this really IS 1984 week. Anyway, back to Opera's little ban page, it has something so many other ban pages lack, a dose of subtlety and HUGE amount of things left unspoken. The light blue and the serene imagery suggest something downright sinister behind the scenes. When you're banned from somewhere else, you are either silently cast out or dragged to the stocks to have rancid vegetables thrown at you; when you're banned from my.Opera you're taken out back with a .22 and shot down like the rabid dog you are. So much shame, sadness, and sinister subtleties in one god damn ban page.
Bravo, Opera, you've scared me shitless.
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