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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Look, several people are telling you they find it upsetting and anxiety provoking - sometimes to the extreme - to be confronted with horrible images. Posters come to this forum for help on a number of subjects, including anxiety. Why the compulsive need to put it in someone's face? What do you gain out of it? You want others to be shocked and miserable with you? Or do you feel a little jolt of excitement when you gawk at someone else's tragedy? There is a type of person who posts and engages in this and really, it doesn't speak well of you. You think you're the healthy one, that you can just post and move on. It's not cool or normal to trade in someone else's tragedy. And the posts with graphic titles are getting out of hand. So why is it necessary? I do NOT need to know that a little boy tried to rape his mother and then killed her, or that someone raped his grandmother, or that someone cut a babies eyes out (made that one up) and see it right there in the post. Even if I never click the post, it's there, and yes, the image sticks with me and upsets me. So what you can say, is i'll stop doing this. People have asked you to stop, it's unwanted. Those who WANT to read this, I guarantee, are the minority. We have a few family members like this and everyone literally avoids them. They want nothing more than to say "see that corner right there? And then tell you a very detailed story about how some child was killed and dismembered there, etc. WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT? It's not "news" and that's exactly the same as what happens when you post this shit here. You're a bad person, by the way. You really, really are. [/quote]

NP (and not one who starts threads on news events, FWIW) - you're really overreacting.  You aren't "confronted with horrible images" - it's a thread title.  Even if it describes a horrible act in 20 or so words. it's completely unrealistic to expect that this (or any anonymous) forum will be so sanitized that you, with your heightened sensibilities, will bever become upset.  For God's sake, each one of these stories is drawn from the national news.  You're seriously suggesting that DCUM become a place where national news stories should be censored?  [/quote]

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