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Originally Posted by DGthe3
I use sarcasm & irony fairly often, and the key (as with any form of communication) is to know your audience. Here, the audience is 'internet forum' and not 'my 5 buddies I've known half my life'. Since we've got tens of thousands of folks from any background you can imagine, you kinda have to assume that people will take it serious. Because to them, certain sarcastic comments will come accross as insults or challenges -even if they knew it was meant as a joke.
With friends you've known for a long time, its a different story. You know whats fair game, whats offensive, and what happens when you cross the line. When talking to countless strangers, you simply don't know. In which case, its best to try and play it safe.
It gets absolutely histerical when you actually know the whole story. And as much as I'd like to share some of those laughs, as a rule we don't "air our dirty laundry" regarding who got banned & why. So the only folks that ever do know that story are the Camaro5 staff & the folks who consider themselves rejects (and feel the urge to complain on another site).
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That was very well put and is how a mod should respond to such things. I haven't had a problem here until today when a mod decided to delete posts he obvoisly did not agree with but left other posts that were equally as "political" as mine. When I said something about it, he told me I was "pouting" and I should find another forum. I thought that was a little rude but hey maybe he was being "sarcastic" lol.