I don’t have an easy answer for this, but I’ll address at least one point above.

1337xxxlolololxxx1337 Posted:

Another point is how can pics that everyone’s seen before be shocking? I’ve seen that so many times it doesn’t bother me.

Were you not shocked the first time you saw it? Just because YOU have become inured to it, doesn’t mean someone else, seeing it for the first (or 2nd or nth) time is also desensitized.

I don’t ban for goatse when I feel that if someone who has never before seen goatse sees the image, they would not be shocked, because they couldn’t guess what was being shown. When I see something questionable (or it’s reported), I run it by ET and let him have the say.