Sillyman, where is your shirt?

bodawei
August 19, 2010, 03:26 AM posted in General Discussion

Coupla questions: 1. I am wondering if ChinesePod vets avatars at all?  (No doubt they are just happy to have them working again.)  The reason I ask is that 'new user' Sillman seems, from his avator, to rarely take off his shirt.  Question 2. But he has done so for his ChinesePod avator, I wonder why? (Maybe Sillyman would like to share?  Maybe it has some relevance to learning Chinese.)  I love the human body (as a principle and also in some discrete cases), but not Sillyman's specifically.  Nor do I advocate censorship.  

PS. I am of course making the assumption that the avatar portrays Sillyman himself, and not for example his best friend. 

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Tal
August 19, 2010, 06:49 AM

I'm just glad he chose to share only the upper half of his body.

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zhenlijiang
August 19, 2010, 07:32 AM

Bodawei I am assuming that's a bearded lady (his mom, probably). It has been so damn hot here!

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zhenlijiang

I'm sorry sillyman, should not have brought your mom (or anybody else's mom) into this. That was stupid and I apologize.

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changye
August 19, 2010, 11:57 AM

Hi sillyman

まあアバターについては小生も他人様のことをとやかく言えるような立場にはないのでありますが、ただその写真ばかりはちょいとマズいんじゃあないんでしょうかねえ。せめて「乳あて」をするくらいの配慮は必用じゃないかしらんと、老婆心ながら進言申し上げる次第です。猛暑の折、ご自愛くださいますよう。

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zhenlijiang
August 20, 2010, 03:50 AM

Bodawei re your question #1, guess not!
(No complaints from anyone today?)

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bababardwan

No complaints from anyone today?

...not even a peep...

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changye

Thankfully(?), the guy doesn't seem to be a frequent poster, as of today. I don't think that seeing a lot of the avatar on the community page in the morning is a great way to start your day, hehe.

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Tal
August 20, 2010, 04:14 AM

I'm still hoping sillyman himself will speak out on this issue.
@changye - shame I can't read Japanese!

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changye

HI tal

Sorry, that is a piece of advice for Sillyman, based on an assumption that he is Japanese. I'm looking forward to receiving his response.

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johnb
August 20, 2010, 05:34 AM

Hey everyone,

We don't check every new user's avatar (there are too many new users every day to make that possible), but we do have standards, and if we discover, or are alerted to, an avatar that violates those standards, we'll take action (and, incidentally, have several times over the last day or so, as a result of new accounts created by what appears to be the same person that created the Sillyman account). 

We're pretty liberal around here, and not into censorship either, so you have to go pretty far to exceed our standards. I think a good rule of thumb would be "if it's something that would get your thrown out of a public park, then it's not OK." Sillyman's avatar doesn't fall into that category (at least not in most locales).

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BEBC

But he's not wearing a bra !

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changye

I wish the guy were a woman!

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mark

Changye, you should have caught silly_mouse before she got censored. I would have given her a pass on creativity, but I suppose that would be a slippery slope, and we would next be seeing all sorts of decorated body parts.

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BEBC

But not a 22 stone female sumo wrestler like this one, I hope. Talk about Whole Lotta Rosie !

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hamshank
August 20, 2010, 06:11 AM

I doubt anyone would be bothered if it was someone with a ripped body and cheeky smile....It's perhaps a good job this account looks like it was joke account or there might be some poor chubby guy crying himself to sleep at night. :)

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xiao_liang
August 20, 2010, 11:18 PM

I'm giving this entire conversation a paddington hard stare.

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zhenlijiang

OK. You'd have done the same for the avatar I was referring to yesterday (not sillyman's, but silly_mouse's) I'm sure. Given it a paddington hard stare that is. 

(which I can't seem to approximate with Japanese emoticons.)

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sillymouse
August 22, 2010, 03:45 AM

I am silly mouse! (I am not sillyman! No way!) My new account was deleted, not just my photo! But we silly mice don't lie down and die, we get up and wonder why, yes! There is room in the world for silly mice, that's what I say, yes!

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xiaophil

I really wish you weren't from the US, but I suspect that makes you happy that people disapprove of you.

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sillymouse

I am a proud American mouse, that's right! Who doesn't approve of me? I am not sillyman, mr. johnb is wrong! he he!