Re: Censorship

Posted by paul on August 24, 2005 at 09:03:16 from (66.60.197.20):

In Reply to: Re: Censorship posted by John...Just John on August 23, 2005 at 20:44:25:

By the way, I did not see the first message that you are discussing. So, I have no opinion on that - sounds like you didn"t do anything wrong on that, but just the whole thread got itself all riled up & it is far easier for the web owners to clip the whole thread rather than go through the sub-messages each day & clip the individual ones. :)

Typed words lose something like 75% of the "feel" of a face to face conversation, and so political topics, color wars, and so on often get skewed _way_ out of shape on discussion forums.

I have seen a couple of dedicated discussion forums (such as this one is, dedicated to older farm equipment) get so swamped by such off-topic stuff that people stop visiting, & the whole place folds up it"s tent.

So, some of us crusty old guys get pretty defensive about off-topic pokes. It fun sometimes, and clear jokes are fun, but anything that gets political will just roll off onto a life of it"s own that does no good for anyone. That is why most discussion forums are moderated, & messages that get feeling riled up just get deleted, no questions & no notification. It is the way of the internet.

In fact many times bored kids like to come on discussion forums & create that type of conflict "just for kicks" and so by now, anyone who stirs up such a conversation is labeled a troll and gets the kind of comments you have. Deserved or not.

Nice to see you are level headed. Shake off the comments, don"t worry about it, & see you around. :)

--->Paul

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