' Wrote:Yes, I know many dislike anime, but thus besides the point.

The title of made it rather clear what was in the thread. Failing that, the first post even explains that ecchi, whilst "suggestive", is not like "that". (Considering that I doubt the kawaii pictures got the thread locked.)

The only controversial images I see are the following:


First of all, I am sure, that PG-13, even sometimes G movies have a kissing scene in them. Unless of course we are discriminating based on sexual preference, and two girls kissing is somehow beyond all sense and sensibility. (As for the torn clothing, it was right after a massive mecha battle and the blonde got injured. Nothing sexual, in that sense.)

Second, the pocky sharing picture. Ga-rei Zero, the anime in question has one true pocky scene, which is where all the "Pocky-lesbian scene guaranteed" memes spawned from. Even in that scene, it is not so much shoujo-ai, or yuri, just a joke taken too far. In the picture, there is a bit of panties showing which is the only thing I can find which could justify it being removed as a permissible picture.

Thirdly, the grope scene. It looks bad. It really does. Until you realise that the person in the middle is Mizuho Miyanokouji, a guy at an all girl's school. The two girls in the scene are squishing his fake breasts because they caught him peeking at the other girl's changing. (They are all changing for sport.)

Regarding the general ecchi nature of the thread, we have allowed something along similar lines as well.

Regarding the panty shot, we have allowed it before as well. (We all know how many times the lamp is a lie demotivational has floated around these forums without question.)

So, if these few pictures violated such forum rules:

* Why were these specific pictures not removed and a warning issued?
* Why was the thread locked with no proper explanation? (Instead I find some of Dusty's and Blodo's very helpful humour.)
* Why were no PM's distributed as to why they were locked? (I had to PM a moderator, whose answers were rather vague.

It is really your choice to enter the thread, especially when there are plenty of warnings telling your exactly what is going on.

Maybe, some things were overlooked and plenty of people were complaining and those with the forum privileges decided to quickly lock the thread.

Either way, it looks like a shoddy, misinformed decision, when other alternatives to locking it with a non-existent reason presented.

' Wrote:/signed

From what I heard, it was the ''softporn'' ecchi which got us the lock. Perhaps linking them next time would get us less troubles?

' Wrote:what does this have to do with my spaceships. you could at least put the word overpowered in here or something. make a bit of an effort.
edit: i should really log out!

' Wrote:It's true that I didn't get a single warning before the lock, which I would have expected since I think my first post was enough of a warning for everyone.

' Wrote:If you can't see the difference between the said two you're really weird.

Those girls you keep posting up are minors, those girls the African mr awesome keeps posting (and should post more) are models. Yeah.
edit: no panties there.