Decided to just rip Lotus's entire cope post off the site and post it here for laughs.
>the benefit of the doubt of a fetish thread
Well that's the question. Is it intended as an 'lol get wrecked racists' or is it intended as well, porn? Certainly zebra stallion on pony mare, or "striped" can be intended as a "get wrecked chuds." But sometimes, for some people, over a decade of just pony on pony or pony on human male can get stale.
I looked into the posting history of the guy who posted the OP of that thread. He has a few other posts that are porn. He has none where he's saying "zebras are superior!" or "get wrecked, chuds" that suggest that this is a deliberate attempt to conflate zebras with black males, and assert some kind of racial aspect to it. No, he just posted pictures of ponies having sex with each other. Compare that to those who posted every other "blacked" thread or image elsewhere on the website, where it's the same one, possibly two people who are spamming things just to be obnoxious, in an attempt to strong arm site moderation.
If the people who did not like the thread had suggested that specifically the use of the word "striped," or zebradom, or that weird thing where a zebra having sex with you causes you to have stripes, should be per se banned from the website, but that an image of a zebra wouldn't necessarily be a cause for alarm, I think that would have been accepted by myself and the other moderators as a kind of reasonable ground, as that is a reasonable way to distinguish between incitement and harmless NSFW posting.
But that isn't what happened at all. Instead, a small number of posters cried out "mods have to ban this!" and began to spam all over the website in an attempt to force moderation to act in a specific way.
One individual started posting webms without spoiler or warning of deaths and gore. At first it was one posted in response to each post containing twilight having sex with a zebra, and this was within the realm of what we are willing to accept. And then it became hard drive dumping, posting probably 50 plus posts. I tried to issue a warning, that did not go through, so I posted in caps lock "the gore post has to stop." He replied in linked posts with one, two, three posts containing more gore. So I issued a one day ban for spamming. Then he posted another, which was banned and removed, then again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, over the span of multiple hours into the morning, as he burned through dozens of proxies. The thing that gets me about it is that in all of these instances, he never once typed "sage" into the email field. So he kept continuously bumping to the top of the board a thread he hates. Make that make sense to me. Is he stupid? A newfag?
Then there was another person, or potentially it was two people, who decided to start spamming blacked posts into other threads and also spam multiple blacked threads onto the board. I believe that three blacked threads in total were spammed, with multiple bans issued and multiple proxies used for ban evasion. He also posted, using a South Korean IP, a thread pretending to be someone who is "leaving" because they saw a blacked thread.
These are the people I'm supposed to prostrate myself before to please so they don't go somewhere else? A pair of people who will attack my website with spam and false flag posts because they see one - one - thread that they do not like? These are the people that are critical to the future of this site? God forbid if they see something they don't like in the future, like an mlp styled deer, or some fanfic they don't like. What will they do in the future if they don't leave our website now?
No. We're not going to do that. I'm sorry. I understand that and why you don't like the thread, but we're not going to allow such tactics to dictate our policy. People need to chill the fuck out.