That was corrected as it should have been - know he knows... It was a n00b mistake. didn't seem to be any malice intended.
Maybe he can have his own thread for gore and dead kids and severed heads or whatever gets him off..

The cellar isn't a public library or a school, the cellar is a unique community of users who expect certain qualities in postings. We ask for these qualities often failing to get them but that we still strive for them. I'm sure you can find snuff pics elsewhere on the net without leaving your chair. We link to crazy shit from here all the time. That is the beauty of the net, there is a place for any garbage we want to find. I just don't wish to find it here. This is a freely organized group of people we can rant, shun, avoid, or ignore at will. Even anarchists organize, they just don't use a gun to have their way.

IOTD is a long-standing draw for the cellar people expect photography and content that they can view from work with their morning cup. The picture labeled for violent content in a thread discussing such probably passes muster and is ignored. Slipped into IOTD it becomes a serious problem.

I've been wrong before and will be wrong again but that is how I see this.

You're not wrong, Griff. IOtD is part of the Cellar but different. A shitload of people see it here, and never see the Cellar. When they click on that bookmark, or their RSS feed, no amount of NSFW warnings in the post title will help, because it opens up smack in their face, often at work. At one time I tried to encourage restraint on language in the IOtD, but got throughly smacked down on that one.

We hope some IOtDers will be curious enough to click on the Cellar link, I did.

I'm not sure you did Bruce, unless it was another conversation before my time. I know I check my language and innuendo when posting in IoTD - and I'm sure others do too - given what motherfucking cunt bastards we can be the rest of the time.

IoTD is our shop window - although given that I dropped in that way perhaps you should be less careful about scaring people off ;)

I did. Someone posted a link to an IoTD and after looking at that, I surfed my way around the site...eventually joining.

The photo in this thread is simply horrible. I could barely glance at it.

Yeah, I get that it was moved from IOTD. I didn't think anyone had a problem with that, I know I don't. I thought we were arguing about the picture itself, whether it should exist, and if it should ever be seen by human eyes.

I'm done arguing either way. Ima :chill: and :corn:.

Ok, here goes.

The image is disturbing. The motivations for posting it are unclear.

That being said, I do find one redeeming attribute. It might serve as a reminder that those who remember the 'good old days' have selective amnesia.

I caught just a small part of the 'Wartorn' documentary on HBO. But it served as a reminder that all of the PTSD stuff that veterans are going through today is nothing new. The same can be said of the result of having no safety net in the 20's and 30's. There is a huge difference between being homeless and literally starving to death. There are stories of desperate men killing themselves and their families. I don't know how prevalent it was, but consider the desperation of someone who has nowhere to go.

Anyone who thinks 'simpler times' means better should look at a lot more of those photos.

They were simpler - as in not as fast paced nor complicated.
No one said that bad things never happened.

Meh - you should try reading my parents' newspaper.
Apparently there was a golden age sometime after WWII where the local bobby smacked kids about and kept them in line, National Service meant there were no criminals and gangsters kept crime off the streets and worshipped their dear old Mums.

Some British comedian said this (I think):

Merkin Cops: "Stop, or I'll shoot!"
Bobbies: "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop!' again!" (See, they don't/didn't carry guns.)

Ditto