Forum Censorship

If the forum wasn`t pretty easy going & was modarated in a heavy handed manner,The chances are that you wouldn`t have been able to post the poll in the first place.

So I am quite happy as it is.

 

I have no complaints and think that self / peer moderation is the best (and hardest) to maintain

FWIW i think it is essential that you can be rude to other
people and hurt their feelings if you feel that they
deserve it. How do you marry that without it becoming
stupid?

Originally posted by William H Frump The right to offend is more saccred than the right not to be offended. IMHO

Really? That's the most stupid thing I've read on this
thread!

Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd GRF seems to moan about the SA moderation and moan about the less than rapturous reception he gets on SA.

That's an interesting perception Stefan.

Yes I moan about moderation, coming from the old school that believe in
freedom of speech and views and not mollycoddling the weak minded
who cannot learn to ignore what offends them. The banning of Doug Lord has
for example turned out to be hypocritical and detrimental to that forum imv.

As for the alleged 'concern' I might have about my own 'reception' I'd
suggest that is more an indicator of your own insecurities.

There is, or should be no concern about a 'persona' on an internet forum,
if one feels that insecure, then become anonymous - simples. They are
purely a recreational medium for information and socialising on a wider
scale than one might normally achieve. One would think from your
position that they might be regarded in some far more serious light.

I post on any number of forums in a variety of hobby/sport interests
ranging from kites to bikes, and this forum is by far the most anal and
coincidently sparsely populated, it has a distinct lack of ribald humour
that one would come to expect elsewhere in webworld for instance and a lack
of new characters to enage with.

That's as it may be, to take my own advice, one can take it or leave it and
it appears most do, given the numbers of participants in sailing over the
numbers that participate here that is clearly the result when you compare
against other minority sports.

The 'spat' that took place yesterday was absolutely trivial from the brief
glimpse I got of it, and it could have developed into an entertaining mid
day diversion. Something we all seek from places like this as an escape
from the drudgery of day to day existence between sailing or whatever the
interest of the particular group that forums develop around.

But no, not to be, moderator says no.

Of course you all wouldn't know that, because its been censored, like
quite a lot of entertaining stuff that we may have no idea about because its also
been censored.

It's a pity

- oh and you're a dick Stephan, just thought I'd add that - so you can get
this post censored if you like.



Edited by G.R.F.