Dear Admins, I just noticed that my tread were moved from "General" to "Politics & Current Affairs", could you explain me the reason?

Merci,

Felipe

....it's because you changed your picture back to the one where you are holding an "alcohol free beer"... and I felt it was a "political and racial comment against Irishmen".

My main objection is the kind of language people are using against others...it is insulting, derogatory and inflammatory. I really wish we could all talk to each other like adults and not fly off the handle...temper tantrums and storming off, threatening to never debate again...all childish and immature behaviour and really doesn't behove us.

I think most folks would agree basic limits should exist on freedom of speech.

The issue many times is that these limits, even if they're spelled out clearly in writing, are understood differently by different people, especially when the situation is complex. Only in very simple cases is it black or white.

That's why freedom of speach questions are sometimes brought all the way up to the supreme court for decision.

Nir

I felt my tread about Africa was "Polluted", I just wanted to share my point of view and discuss about a continent that the Medias do not cover enough in my taste. However unfortunately some people spoiled my thread by starting to make some personal attacks, insults...

The freedom of speech is to share different point of view, but as you said the freedom of speech is limited. I have really the impression some people are blind or even stupid; cos they still don’t understand blaming their insults does not mean blaming their point of view.

Cos some people want to control your exposure, to be honest I would do the same, especially with your fake beer .

felipe I am sorry to inform you, according to the personal attacks your received on my tread, I can tell some people really don't like your point of view

In order to avoid confusions:

Envoyé le : Mar 5 juillet 2011, 14h 01min 04s
Objet : Re: Glocals Report to Admin from Felipe Marciano

We feel it fits better there than on any of the other forums. It's not an exact fit with any forum, but the closest is there.

Nir

It's not dislike.

Posting the Swiss penal code in order to inform people and making them aware of the fact that what they post online can come and bite them in the ass is nice.

But posting the Swiss penal code repeatedly not used as an information tool but as a threat against people with opposing views and then stating that such and such will be reported to the authoties because of something they wrote, it's another very different thing!!!! (the ironic thing is that some of his comments towards Israel aren't exactly tolerant)

The threatening thing, he's done it already with like 4 or 5 people on this forum, I even recall him demanding Nir and Oded to inform him of the punishment his reportees will get from the glocals administration (that's very intolerant almost totalitarian if you ask me)

I don't take this forum personal, nor I have anything against anybody here, but we all need some reality check sometimes.

If posts are censored or moderated they are technically not free

censored or heavily moderated boards are...well not much fun - people are adults and can defend themselves

if people are upset about any posts they should reply online - remember guys a LOT of context and humour is lost online - rereading posts shows that the person is obviously joking - even if people are making personal insults remember it is just the www unless you know that person in real life that insult is just meaningless bits and bytes

Guys lighten up - really is anyone saying a few choice swearwords that bad?

I have posted the Swiss penal code 3 times in 3 different threads. You can find below the sentences that I used to introduce them:

“I am sorry to be boring to repost the part of Swiss Penal Code, which talks about racism, however I really think some people have to be aware about it before to post anything on internet.”

“I would like to show you and to the Glocals Admins what the Swiss Penal Code says about it and which actions you are able to take.”

“I am interested to fight the racism especially on internet; do you know any Anti-Racism associations in Geneva? Btw the Swiss Penal Code says about racism :” 

Could you tell me please how you see a threat against people?

As you know English is not my mother tongue, I may not express myself properly and people can interprate me wrongly.

As I explained on this tread the only purpose is to inform and not all to threat anybody.

Regarding "the ironic thing is that some of his comments towards Israel aren't exactly tolerant", I always expressed my opinions based on facts and information with their relevant sources. So if you think I was intolerant and if you disagree with my posted facts please expressed yourself on the relevant thread, by providing your facts, your sources and offcourse your point of view. I will be more than happy to share differant point of view in a cool and impersonal way

"demanding Nir and Oded to inform him of the punishment his reportees will get from the glocals administration"

Beeing a curious person, an active poster on glocals forum and the thread's poster, I think it is interesting to know how the admins managed the case.

Thank you Felipe for these clarifications.  Now that we are all well informed about the Swiss Penal Code on racism, how about moving on? :-)

Andy,

On my African thread you talked about what you called “the Star incident”.

Before to start to critize lol I would like firstly to thank the admins, they have created an amazing website, their moderating is very good and they satisfied all my different reports.

Back to “the Star incident”, as many people I fully supported Felipe, cos I even reported to the admin one of the post. However I think the admins didn’t manage the case so well. In my opinion the question related to the Felipe tread was not “How to moderate politics thread on Glocals”, cos it could happen in any topics, but it was “How to make sure that a warned poster (about racist comments) won’t post any racist comments again?”.

As I said they do a great job and in the end they do what they think is right, however they let me some weird impressions on the incident. I meant for example some members informed us in the Felipe’s tread that they were temporarily banned after one warning for heated replies the same day, but the poster who has been several warned and who posted clearly several racist posts, is even able to reply to the Felipe’s thread and to say that the people who supports Felipe are brainwashed.

I can also add that the poster informed us on a different tread she received a phone call from the Admins to inform her about the Felipe’s thread.

Unfortunately these weird things can send a wrong picture.

Peace and Love,

Geoffrey

After making the effort to read all my former posts on the Israel forum,

http://www.glocals.com/#/forums/politics-and-current-affairs/Israel-127724.htm

I can be wrong, but I cannot see anything which is not “exactly tolerant”, could you also show me please which comments you were talking about?

Merci,

Felipe

Sorry I was using the Geoffrey 's laptop

After making the effort to read all my former posts on the Israel forum,

http://www.glocals.com/#/forums/politics-and-current-affairs/Israel-127724.htm

I can be wrong, but I cannot see anything which is not “exactly tolerant”, could you also show me please which comments you were talking about?

Merci,

Felipe

Now I am wondering if Geoffrey's profile is a fake or maybe the real Felipe....

Ohhh "Felipe" now people are starting to discover the truth!

I just had a conversation with a friend who made me see how silly I was for feeling bad about revealing your real identity to avoid the public humilliation because after all as a friend I was just trying to show you how wrong it was what you were doing and did in the past with the fake profile. And you cannot say I didn't bring this subject before in private messages, but you disn't listen and continued maintaining it was a fun thing to do :S

However, you decided to respond to my post and to the possibility of being unmasked by trying to ridicule me saying I was just an angry girl who you stood up at a cafe some months ago......haha!

Well, sir, you thought you'd get away with this lie about me because you assumed naively there will not be any evidence. Hmmm, among other existing evidence, here people can see how you were playing with two profiles: using "ohhh poor Felipe victim of the unlimited freedom of speech on the internet's profile" to start a thread to get attention, then using the real identity to support your own opinion (or Felipe's, haha, what a mess!) and giving as many "thanks" as you could to validate Felipe's fake existence on glocals. Well that is just sad and silly, because if you feel so strong and so right about your opinions you shouldn't need more than your real identity to express them.

You did this here and you've done it before on other threads. And you've done other wrong things with the fake identity. Things which you without any push from anyone revealed, for example making fun of women by asking them out and then standing them up at cafesand laughing at them, etc. Oh! and then you mocked another one, ME, by using your own confession to try to ridicule me......well.....BIG FAIL!

So, is there something on the Swiss Penal Code I should feel worried about for unmasking someone who uses a fake identity to make fun of people? I'm eager to read any answers.

Dear Admins: please read your emails and do not delete my profile or close this thread as you now have enough evidence to prove I was not falsely acussing anyone on glocals, but instead the real liar tried to turn me into "the laugh of the town" for doing the right thing.

I think I deserve to have the doubts about me and my statements clarified. You wrote in the messages you sent to me that you're concerned when acussations about fake identities are in the air because the users feel unsafe. Well, I will feel unsafe if for trying to contribute I get blamed and ridiculed.

Many thanks.... I hope not to be involved again in such a soap opera as some people called this :)

Geoffrey aka Filipe

I feel an ass whoppin' is coming your way.....

My Advice : stay low, coz your behaviour has been low... how you could treat a "friend" like that?

Youre wierd, simple as that!

I have both 'Felipe' and Geoffrey on my friend list. I have chatted with both of them. Once in the same day. 'Felipe' told me how Geoffrey was a really nice guy and how he was having lunch with him and how they went to the gym together.Yesterday I sent a message to Geoffrey to tell him to get online so he could clarify the whole mystery (as he seemed to be the only one who had met 'Felipe'): he replied that 'Felipe' was real and he was going to reply on the thread. I guess he did: as 'Felipe'. I can't quite believe this. This is not normal behaviour.

A Picture with the tribune of Geneva or another newspaper will be provided tonight or tomorrow, so wait and see :-)

Yes, Photoshop's a wonderful thing isn't it!

By the way, Geoffrey / Felipe: what's the actual medical name for your condition?  

Instead of a picture, I will probably send a video, wait and see don't be too impatient :-)

Hi Folks,

Since this whole issue surfaced we've received a lot of info that suggests some serious abuse of our terms.

We're not accusing anyone of anything yet, but until this issue is solved we suspended the 2 accounts in question.

Once we're done going over all the info we have, we'll take the necessary actions and will update you.

Thanks

Oded

I heard from several girls that Geoffrey has not testicles, so you better make this video `convincing`.

I believe it is called  "Dissociative identity disorder"

The symptons are described below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

Yeah Geoffrey, I know you have some female friends who have worked as models, that's probably how you got the photos, right? ;)

What now, are you going to drag the real model guy to this insanity just to try to prove your lie? Well, if he even exists and is so stupid to fall in your crazy story then he definitey fits the cliche profile of "dumb model".

Why don't you, instead, meet with the Glocals team and bring Felipe? ahahahaha, after all he's so close to you he can use your laptop sometimes

Well, I for one will look forward to seeing his video.  (By the way, Felipe/Geoffrey/Keyser Soze whatever your name is, male models on a catwalk don't count!).

However, based on Jenny and other people's information, I have a feeling his video will be more like this...

Yes, I think we are all waiting to see how this soap opera ends!

I know that the thought of someone creating a fake profile and then using this fake profile to belittle and make fun of people makes a lot of us angry, but let's not jump to conclusions and convict people based on partial info.

If this accusation is correct, it has legal and civil ramifications for the person who created the profile, and we want to make sure we have all the info before we take the neccessary actions.

In the meantime, let's keep an open mind and give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks

Oded

Actually at no point did I feel I was belittled by both Geoffrey and 'Felipe'...both were extremely well-mannered and restrained in their posts. Even in the private chats. I don't know what the truth was (Felipe telling me he was looking for a good Catholic girl, how he had married a Jewish girl and gotten divorced because his in-laws were not open-minded, how his brother had three sons and how his sister suffered from migraines). And then of course Geoffrey had a completely different story. No harm was done to me but I would like to know why he did this (if indeed its true).

just in case my open mind needs closing....

LOL..... Felipe / Geoffrey / keyser / and God knows how many more identities got owned!