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09-04-2008, 08:54 PM
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I've seen a few TBers with new avatars displaying their favorite presidential candidates. I'm very put off by them; I thought TB was a politics-free zone. 
I checked the rules and this doesn't seem to be prohibited. Politic topics are phohibited, but not avatars. . .
Anybody else feel this way?
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09-04-2008, 08:55 PM
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09-04-2008, 08:55 PM
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09-04-2008, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: FL Panhandle | | i don't care, its only a picture.
don't you have a gun in your avatar? from the looks of things in off topic i'd say that offends quite a few people as well..... 
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09-04-2008, 08:58 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | It's been discussed in this forum before.
The mods have ruled that they're OK because it's just an avatar, not a thread containing political discussion.
Personally, I really don't care who has what for an avatar. |
09-04-2008, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | "let he who is without controversial avatars post the firs thread..."
geez...
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09-04-2008, 09:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL | | | Very good points, you all have. . . |
09-04-2008, 09:00 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lefty007 I've seen a few TBers with new avatars displaying their favorite presidential candidates. I'm very put off by them; I thought TB was a politics-free zone.
I checked the rules and this doesn't seem to be prohibited. Politic topics are phohibited, but not avatars. . .
Anybody else feel this way? | Political correctness becomes silly once ppl go out of their way to get offended. |
09-04-2008, 09:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: an ignore list near you | | | Under "My Talkbass", "Edit Options", you can disable avatars. Problem solved.
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09-04-2008, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL | | I guess it's just that I come to TB to talk mostly about music and bass, and I'm running away from the 24/7 media coverage of the campaign. . .
But, yes, you all have good points, it's just freedom of expression and an avatar don't harm anybody.  |
09-04-2008, 09:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: PR of Greenbelt, MD | | Fixed it.
In the past I admit to putting up some very oblique political avatars, not to mention Custom User captions.
I confess that I was only trying to annoy FL Knifemaker and not anyone else.... 
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09-04-2008, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by syciprider Political correctness becomes silly once ppl go out of their way to get offended. | Can I vote for your candidate?
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09-05-2008, 01:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | There is a thread bout this in the lobby
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09-05-2008, 01:36 AM
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09-05-2008, 01:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by unbasslichkeit Fixed it.
In the past I admit to putting up some very oblique political avatars, not to mention Custom User captions.
I confess that I was only trying to annoy FL Knifemaker and not anyone else.... | I'm annoyed. When you read about me jumping from the Tampa Skyway to my death it will be on your concious   |
09-05-2008, 01:43 AM
| | | Political avatars are for losers...  hahahahaha, WOOO!
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09-05-2008, 02:18 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | If I had a political avatar you probably woudn't even notice or know who it was!
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09-05-2008, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by syciprider Political correctness becomes silly once ppl go out of their way to get offended. | + a million!
Avatars of all things.. Jeez..
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09-05-2008, 03:45 AM
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Originally Posted by LKdubby + a million!
Avatars of all things.. Jeez.. | So you'd be cool with me having Hitler as my avatar then? I mean - he was a politician.
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09-05-2008, 04:40 AM
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