MSPcomix wrote:
If you don't understand the basics of humor, any discussion with me is not going to work. A fault of the Internet is that many have an inability to read humor, exaggeration or sarcasm without the audio required to enforce such notions. Those that get my sense of humor have been able to recognize when I'm not being serious, but the fault still remains. It's not a fault of the individuals at the other hand who respond in offense because of an inability to detect humorous intent, but the fault of this communications medium.
Ok. In light of that, I think it would be benefitial for all of us to have a few things clarified:
1) When you called the first amendment and freedom of speech and censorship, was that supposed to be humorous, or do you really actually think that what has happened to you is akin to real censorship and violation of the first amendment?
2) Do you really think that you were banned from the group because you were posting comics with real issues? Do you really think that you were banned because you don't draw pornography? Do you really think that members/mods of the group are depraved fur gays?
3) Do you really think that something constitutes as censorship if it was rejected only after it's previously been accepted?
4) Do you really think that your predicament is a result of a change in political climate (ie "Republicans taking over Congress" or was that connection drawn only for comical purposes?
5) Was posting of the link to some biased study about marijuena and giving some outrageous claims about it's benefits supposed to be a joke? Or maybe is was exageration (for comical purposes) of your actual beliefs?
6) Do you care about this issue at all? Does your posting here have some goal, some purpose? Or was the entire thing just a comedy piece?
I would like to know to which extent yout humor/sarcasm/exageration goes. It is true that it's something not easily read over internet, and it's also true that many people aproach unknown groups without neccesary caution not to get poorly understood. However if you care about being understood properly, it is about time you make some clarifications. There's no doubt your presentation here was funny, it's just a matter of how intentional this funny was.
The only serious thought in my process is that I believe that I was censored by the group because the work in question did not violate the group's rules, and because of this, there was no reason to delete content that the group had accepted months earlier. No contact was made and I never received any indication that anyone was ever offended by my comic, or the drawings related to the comic. The last thing I submitted was this:
http://mysticstudiosproduct.deviantart. ... -186046519
If a character standing fully clothed with no dialogue is offensive enough for you to kick someone out of your group for drawing it, than just about anything can be considered offensive. But they accept stuff that looks real fetishy to me, so there's obviously a political undercurrent here.
Yeah, again I'll mention that as you did not receive any information about banning (and you didn't ask for one either) you are just making guesses about reasons for it. For all you know, banning may be a result of one of following:
1. a mistake on the side of administrator (they happen you know).
2. a result of your text posts rather than of your comics (it is true that you come a bit strong). And if someone failed to interpret your sence of humor (which as you said happens) you might have unwittingly offended someone.
3. it may not be the visual side of your comic, you do tend to use words like "fag" very liberally and elsewhere you said you don't care about PC, so if you let slide something like, maybe, racial slurs, than that might have been the reason for your banning, because these are today a hotter button than pornography, and rightly so.
So for christs sake, if you really want to get back to that group, or at least if you care about finding out why you were banned - ask a moderator of the group, and try to do it politely and reasonably. You know - without mentioning constitution and Obama.