On a recent visit to /r/ Quran, I was searching for some information regarding the "TPB mirror" that Redditors were talking about. I couldn't quite find it, but then again, I didn't spend much time on Reddit. I'd like to explain my efforts here.
/u/TPPStreamerBot "I swear to u Redditors, if you do not find the source I will dig it up and post the URL in your case flair. The mirror I am talking about is the one with the picture of Jesus on it. The user name is "iatorious". The picture is on white background, so I assume it is a photoshopped image. I have no idea why a moderator from the "Proposal" section on Reddit would post this picture, or how the holy spirit endorsed this particular tshirt.
I poked around a bit, and I discovered that the TPB mirror reddit user has been banned from the site, and has no way of returning to the site. The ban was for "grave sucking", which is a term used by Bible-lovers to describe an act of masturbation (i.e., "spanking") while they are still married. The act often takes place when one spouse is "spanked" with an iPhone by the other partner. The offending spouse cannot receive a "white" flair (i.e., the "uber") until they agree to stop "grave sucking". It seems that the IOS-running "reddits" are suddenly very strict about this particular rule, even enforcing it with severe punishment.
A quick Google search turned up this: " Reddiquette", which suggests that "users may use images of photographs, people, or promotional materials posted on Reddits" and that they may "use reddiquette text links, iHSS links, and /u/warpath links". So this "AMA" styled "banned" area may be more strict than the "reddiquette" would suggest. In any case, it seems to me that violating the "AMA" terms of service on a major website such as reddits is pretty much an automatic ban, as well as any further action that the moderators deem to be warranted. On the plus side, the IOS-running reddits has finally launched a Google Maps-style interactive map viewer, so redditors can see where all the "red dot's" are on the home speaker's house floor.
So this brings me to my last thought: is the banishment of the iHSS working as a bad thing? No, it's not, in fact it's actually a pretty good thing, because the timing belt is going to be a much more efficient method of delivering white noise in the future. For instance, say you have a big social event coming up, where you want to keep a group of people happy and busy, without distracting anyone from your main speech. A good idea would be to give them a small iHSS or bluetooth headset, and ask them to put it on while they're at their laptops. Once they do that, you'll be able to run another speech through your iHSS or bluetooth and have everyone in the room listening with the volume set to full, at a different volume from the main audio track.
That's just one example of something like that happening, but you get the point. The BTK ban was silly, and while no one really cares what Mr. Wuilleth Flocksius thinks, I hope he realizes his mistake, and lets the world know that his advice is BISHOPED! In other words, please come clean, and stop pretending to be a Bible-thumper, when what you really should be doing is trying to make people smarter. Consider all this in 2006.
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