Twinfalls said:
I'm getting tired of the stupid racist shit as well. I realise it's harder to justify censorship of that stuff, but the sheer amount of 'Ha ha nigger picture watermelon lol' cannot be doing the reputation of this site any good. It's mainly two members, one of whom has contributed pretty much nothing here but idiotic gigantic lego and tranny pics - and now stupid racist shit as well.
I'd suggest retardoing some of the threads which seem to exist purely for a vulgar racist outpour for some of the more 'life-challenged' members.....
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What reputation would rpgcodex get? One of Freedom? A sight where you can say anything and not get repremanded? Is that bad? Why stop racist remarks and not other offensive remarks? Why not anti-Christian remarks? Where does it stop? Where you feel it ethically should?