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[kadath.livejournal.com]

Hmm...not seeing a downside.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

To which?

[kadath.livejournal.com]

That's the point! No downside, period!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No downside to posting a notice saying "say it to our face, cowardly assholes"?

No downside to destruction of property because you wanted to say "fuck you" in the way least likely to provoke a confrontation?

(Personally, I think taggers are basically the same as spammers and telemarketers, and hence *all need to die*. Once they're all dead and all "tags" are forever erased, then we can decide if non-tag graffiti in general is acceptable or not.)

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Who tags?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Clueless, cowardly assholes, who feel a sense of unearned entitlement and a profound lack of empathy for people who actually produce or contribute.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I mean, I've never actually seen anything vaguely signature-looking in a bathroom.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Graffiti in commercial/industrial areas don't bother me, whether they're tags or something more ambitious. They're part of the city, and such things existed before spray paint.

Now, tagging sole proprietorships and similar small businesses is more problematic, since you're starting to hit the line between corporations and people.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Meh, I'm not impressed by taggers on any property. It's just dogs pissing on a hydrant, only they're doing it on someone else's carpet instead of grass than can use the nitrates.

-- Steve sees this around the neighbourhood sometimes, though thankfully most don't last too long.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

You'll appreciate this, J:

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7775/myfirstcavitysearchmb9.jpg

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Best. Graffiti. Ever.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What, the idea of tagger-as-brand?

[rosethornn.livejournal.com]

Gotta disagree with you there.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Graffiti is a form of art. Saying the fact is invalidated by all the 17yr old wannabe gangsters is akin to saying drawing isn't art, because people draw cartoon penises and think it's funny.

I dislike tagging too, but tbh, billboards and other ads annoy me moreso.

[themanabides.livejournal.com]

If it's put on someone else's property without their permission -- regardless of how beautiful it might be -- it's not art.

[themanabides.livejournal.com]

Actually, I take that back. It may be art, but it's still also vandalism.

[rosethornn.livejournal.com]

Why?

[themanabides.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the time that I saw "DIRTY NIGER" written on the wall in a bathroom. Someone else had written a long explanation below it about the Niger River and the intelligence of the person based on his lack of spelling acumen and obviously bigoted nature.

I was just a kid at the time, and otherwise would have photographed or copied it down for posterity.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I just settled for some mild sarcasm:

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I know that it's still vandalism but I adore the lengthy conversations that happen on University walls.

I have also seen positive, encouraging statements amongst the tags and insults of bathrooms.