Everyone, remember to stay on topic and keep the feedback solely to the initial topic. If anyone wants to debate about related issues, please start one in the appropriate forum.

I have no inside knowledge of what prompts the Subeta team to make free gifts for some occasions, other than, when they do it, it's because they have the resources to do it: they have an artist available who happens to be aware of the thing, said artist chooses to spend their time to make the item, instead of spending time on something else, and it gets pushed out quickly enough to actually still be relevant.

I believe staff has said before that they want to get away from commemorating RW events/people, because there are just so many that they can't keep up with them all and people get upset that X is acknowledged with a free gift, but Y was not. But I may be misremembering, so don't quote me on that.

It wasn't an official reprimand, since that's not something I'm able to do. There was also no red bar. (actually, I meant to post this without the red bar as well, so don't mind it. This is just me talking.)

There was only one topic of discussion that could be pretty interesting in this thread, and that's the idea that Bowl of Ebola only strikes people as a dark joke while say, Cup of Cancer or All the AIDS would rightly strike people as offensive, even though the affliction and the alliteration is the punchline, not the victims. However, when we start ranking diseases, start reducing real people and real suffering to numbers, start using statistics to debate just how offended somebody should be, that's not going to go anywhere good.

(as an aside, ebola is comparable to cancer and AIDs in that you are probably going to die, you are definitely going to suffer, and your body is going to fight so hard, through so much excruciating pain, that you're not even going to look like the person you were before you were sick. That's not something that a graph is going to tell anyone.)

I could have posted that originally, I suppose, but a wall of text on the bottom of the page is going to be glossed over, and THAT is the problem with this board and the crux of my annoyance with it (and the reason for my drive-by sarcasm.) This thread was posted soon after the gypsy items were renamed and dealt with. Some people were already on edge with that topic because they felt this was going to usher in an era of extreme political correctness. So now you get a misguided thread from someone that I assume just wanted to be sensitive, and what follows is eight pages of people shouting into a void, getting angry at points that aren't even being made. Nevermind the accusations of racism. Ugh. Ugh ughugh. No one is reading the thread and seeing the OP never came back to debate their reasons, and that no one is even on the side of removing the item, so they are punching at strawmen.

It has died down, but now every few days somebody sees the topic, sees the OP, skips countless posts about the same thing and jumps to the post button to argue about those darn SJWs and oversensitive types trying to censor and take away everything fun. IMO, it should be locked, because the bumping isn't going to stop and it's never ever going to go anywhere good.