The revenge porn accusation is a by-product of having once used opa-ages. For those who don't know the history of the forums, it was a splinter group of users with their own forum, closely related to this one. It was never as clean as neogaf tried to be. It was kind of like a dark world to GAF, where moderation was practically non existent and that was the whole point of it. The Bore is like a more tasteful, modern equivalent where people are a lot more decent.
Anyway, back to OA: Olimario, who was a poster here before getting banned and living out his days on OA, traded nude pictures of his girlfriend for a PSP, and the pictures got shared around and ended up becoming some kind of weapon between warring forums and posters. There was a whole thread devoted to posting and sharing nudes and porn links on OA, but getting pictures of another users girlfriend would have been one of the kinds of things that would trigger a mega thread there. OA members would say Evilore looked like an elf and mock him in other ways, olimario and people like that were adversaries. I think people would have done anything to get one over on each other back then. That's just what it was like, rightly or wrongly. There was a thread here in OT for "showing off" your girlfriend, not nude or anything, more for pride - but I think EL and the mods here curtailed that a bit to help roll back the creep factor and be considerate of others... It was feeding that kind of culture. People change.
Its not a great look sharing someone's pictures like that, especially as attitudes towards non consented image sharing have vastly improved, women today have better advice when it comes to sharing images of themselves today too, that wasn't always the case. Believe me - if he's guilty of that (and I wasn't there at the time so I don't know all the details) he won't be the only one. What Amir0x allegedly did in that shit flinging era was arguably worse. All of that stuff has been known by some here for a long long time. Its in the primordial past. PSP was new so we're talking everyone being 10+ years younger.
I'm of the opinion you could dig in to the internet and private messaging past of any number of people and find a fair amount of regrettable wrong doing. I'm not saying its not bad, its just old stuff.. it just makes it seem all the crazier to me that this allegation, which is more easily answerable, caused this kind of reaction. I guess some things come back to haunt you. Its worth noting that kind of people who like dredging this stuff up are often bitter banned former members who posted on places like OA, voat, reddit and 4chan, where people have done things that are easily just as bad.
Anyway, back to OA: Olimario, who was a poster here before getting banned and living out his days on OA, traded nude pictures of his girlfriend for a PSP, and the pictures got shared around and ended up becoming some kind of weapon between warring forums and posters. There was a whole thread devoted to posting and sharing nudes and porn links on OA, but getting pictures of another users girlfriend would have been one of the kinds of things that would trigger a mega thread there. OA members would say Evilore looked like an elf and mock him in other ways, olimario and people like that were adversaries. I think people would have done anything to get one over on each other back then. That's just what it was like, rightly or wrongly. There was a thread here in OT for "showing off" your girlfriend, not nude or anything, more for pride - but I think EL and the mods here curtailed that a bit to help roll back the creep factor and be considerate of others... It was feeding that kind of culture. People change.
Its not a great look sharing someone's pictures like that, especially as attitudes towards non consented image sharing have vastly improved, women today have better advice when it comes to sharing images of themselves today too, that wasn't always the case. Believe me - if he's guilty of that (and I wasn't there at the time so I don't know all the details) he won't be the only one. What Amir0x allegedly did in that shit flinging era was arguably worse. All of that stuff has been known by some here for a long long time. Its in the primordial past. PSP was new so we're talking everyone being 10+ years younger.
I'm of the opinion you could dig in to the internet and private messaging past of any number of people and find a fair amount of regrettable wrong doing. I'm not saying its not bad, its just old stuff.. it just makes it seem all the crazier to me that this allegation, which is more easily answerable, caused this kind of reaction. I guess some things come back to haunt you. Its worth noting that kind of people who like dredging this stuff up are often bitter banned former members who posted on places like OA, voat, reddit and 4chan, where people have done things that are easily just as bad.
