UF Pike banned?

[ROWDYsister]

I knew it was only a matter of time til the masses raised their pitchforks and marched around with lit torches and UF_Pike was banned. He had many inflammatory posts, but sometimes he didn't mean to piss everyone off, we just didn't care for his choice of words.

But don't we all know someone like that? Someone who speaks their mind and expects you to do the same? He posted once on the PKA forum that "if he can't be himself among his own brothers, who can he be himself with?" I sympathized, b/c honestly I know that what I post here is not always the whole story.

Only with your own friends can you be truly yourself, I guess. We share some offensive things with each other, but we know where we're coming from and that we're not bad people so we try and understand what is being said before jumping all over them. (Actually, with my very best friends I can say anything I want and I know they would never think less of me.) The thing is, this is the internet and what we post is taken at face value and maybe we have to try harder to see who is saying what before we condemn them.

He was irreverant but real and in some ways reminded me of my own friends who others judged too quickly.

In the real world we can't just do this. We can't just say, "I don't like you, I don't like what you're saying, would you please shut up?" and then OFF them (legally.)

I was just waiting for the day when more people gave him a chance, but I guess that day will never come.