Nelson Mandela

[nibnob21]

Has died.

[KingoStarr]

Hopefully able to Rest In Peace after a long battle with illness.

[Tim]

Actually, let's keep this thread as an RIP thread for a man who was inspirational to millions. We can discuss the rights or wrongs of what he did in the future/vxr/another thread.

[Aaron]

Rip

[Samo]

Actually, let's keep this thread as an RIP thread for a man who was inspirational to millions. We can discuss the rights or wrongs of what he did in the future/vxr/another thread.

So we're only allowed to write RIP, or what a great man he is? Nothing else, no discussions or anything other than clean cut. This feels like a dictatorship

[Tim]

So we're only allowed to write RIP, or what a great man he is? Nothing else, no discussions or anything other than clean cut. This feels like a dictatorship

Open a thread in VXR to debate it.

[Samo]

No I cant be arsed. I dont have a problem with old nelsey, but this is a forum so to tell people to only say what you want them to say is wrong.

[Tim]

That's what I thought but apparently I was wrong to do that and got told to start, or put, any thread which had a different view to someone else in VXR. Since this thread was going this way, I decided to clean it and request for people who want to discuss if he was good, bad or wanting to make jokes to post them in VXR.

[Hardcore]

So we're only allowed to write RIP, or what a great man he is? Nothing else, no discussions or anything other than clean cut. This feels like a dictatorship

It's bad taste to wait until someone dies to start talking talking negatively about them.

No I cant be arsed. I dont have a problem with old nelsey, but this is a forum so to tell people to only say what you want them to say is wrong.

What forums don't have rules about what is acceptable to post about?

[Samo]

It's bad taste to wait until someone dies to start talking talking negatively about them.


What forums don't have rules about what is acceptable to post about?

Firstly, i'm not saying I want to talk badly of him, I just dont agree with modifying the forum if it doesnt suit your view. Its not that people have waited until he has died to start negatively talking of him. Its that he has now become a point of topic as he is in the media therefore it provokes people to talk about him.

Where in the rules of this forum, or infact most/possibly all other forums ddoes it say that if you have a different mindset to the majority of other people, your thoughts will be silenced?

[Mibo]

I say RIP as well, great man i'm sure very influential.

that being said, god i wish the news stations would move on already, i can't even catch the weather b/c its 24/7 mandela

[Hardcore]

Firstly, i'm not saying I want to talk badly of him, I just dont agree with modifying the forum if it doesnt suit your view. Its not that people have waited until he has died to start negatively talking of him. Its that he has now become a point of topic as he is in the media therefore it provokes people to talk about him.

Where in the rules of this forum, or infact most/possibly all other forums ddoes it say that if you have a different mindset to the majority of other people, your thoughts will be silenced?

Perhaps you should raise it via PM with the forum owners.

[Samo]

Ive already raised it in staff

[Samo]

I found it amusing how someone on my facebook wrote "RIP Mandela" last night, yet today wrote xenophobic messages of hate regarding the asylum seekers getting put up in a hotel.