There was camel toe - probably in the recycle bin area of the forum (a private, moderator-access only area: no content was ever permanently deleted, I believe) - therefore the whole forum platform has to go, but we won't bother actually raising and discussing this urgent issue with any forum moderators, or forum members, or anyone else - we'll just hang around quietly for several months, getting down to implementing these grand plans, which all follow quite parsimoniously from the basic desire to eliminate camel toe and other undesirable content, and are obviously the best solution thereto, and we just know best. And we'll brush off the plebs when they ask too many questions about the new site, and we'll dole them Mushroom Management - keep them in the dark, cover them in shit, and eventually can them - even though they're more qualified to do the job than we are - just because...chalkers wrote:
"camel toe" was the search term and it was on public thread and there were images.
And we won't be transparent or invite criticism too much, because our PR and discretion are more important than our actual earned credibility and honourability. And we do know best, anyway. And who needs to continue to worry about credibility once you become Richard's protégé, anyway. It's not like he bothers to engage his critical faculties once you reach a certain level of Golden Child in his eyes... And why do we need to worry about being accountable to anyone but ourselves anyway, since it's OUR site? If we want to be hubristic wankers and sap the site slowly from the inside, and appear to go out of our way to piss a lot of people off in the process, that's our privilege, isn't it?
And I, Richard Dawkins, want a site more dedicated to Reason and Science, even though I hardly fucking looked at the science and reason-themed sections of the old site - and even though it's going to take that upstart little bastard lordpasternack to point out that the revamped site has as much true reason and science content as a Tesco Value sausage roll has meat content, before I actually notice this small triviality - and make some effort to try to fix it - by posting mailing-list fodder science news. But that's rhetoric for you - that's not living up to your own values for you - that's showing that even incredibly intelligent minds can be disgracefully stupid, insincere and short-sighted, for you.
That's the 'vision' for you. To be frank - I'd rather compromise and tolerate a couple of camel toe threads.
