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Some social media sites disallow Text-Within-Image devices designed to thwart automated site moderation. I think these memes are uncool because they allow a member to break the rules of common decency and ordinary respect for others who have a different opinion to them. Automated site moderation robots are unable to detect text within images and they permit comments which are offensive and/or irrelevant to the topic of the thread. They are not necessarily always offensive or irrelevant but it would not bother me if they were disallowed altogether. I say what I mean, I have seen others "say it with meme" in say, the Politics group (which is controversial due to the push and shove of politics in general). I accept that the push and shove of some controversial debate may be unavoidable but disallowing text-within-image devices will hold members to account more thoroughly if they express an opinion that the majority of members would not let them get away with in text. I accept that other members are entitled to hold an opinion that I may disagree with personally. I am not advocating censorship. I am recommending an editorial policy that will make members more responsible for what they say. For an example an image displayed in the group Politics contained the word C-L-I-N-T-O-N displayed vertically with those seven letters being the first letters in the words Corrupt-Lying-Incompetent-Narcissistic-TwoFaced-Offensive-Nag displayed in a stack top down. I tried to drag the image into this comment but the word processor will only display the ID. Perhaps it would display the image after I posted it but I can not be sure. In the same thread I expressed the view in text that Trump's attitude towards the media is M-E-D-I-A = Many Envious Democrats-In-Awe. No doubt my rival disagrees with my opinion and he's entitled to, but I said it in plain text and no other member or site moderator has challenged me about it's appropriateness to date. I do not deny that politics is a rough and tumble business, but most social media sites have rules of fair play and Text-Within-Image devices frustrate the purposes of automated site moderation to some degree (IMHO). The meme described in this message is Jackjjacksonjr-n80E2KBhj-b.jpg

 
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