The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66296   Message #1099918
Posted By: The Shambles
23-Jan-04 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Shambles can you help?
Subject: RE: Tech: Shambles can you help?
Where have I ever said that anarchy is glorious and sacred?   

I do believe that there is something glorious and sacred about a precious comodity called our freedom of expression. Joe do you not see any difference between anarchy and that freedom? For along with freedom comes a responsibility not to deny the freedom to others that you may take as a right. This means accepting things that are not to your taste.

Anyone on the internet filters out the things that are not to their tastes - it would be very nice not to have to do this but the world is not always a nice place - the internet reflects this and our forum also reflects all aspects its contributors from all over the world.

I respect and would probably share your views of what you wish to see our forum to reflect - but there is now a forum for music-related posts that be shaped to some degree to your wishes. I just hope this can rather be shaped by your positive contributions and good example rather than censoring, moving and deleting other's contributions that are not to your personal taste.

However, there is also now a part of the forum set aside for BS or non music related threads. Anyone opening these should not be surprised if they find BS. Anyone being offended - if they should open these - can be told not to open them. So there really is no need for this section to be controlled or attempted to be controlled in the same manner.   

Perhaps an experiment can be carried out - where for a trial period no one censors anything on the BS forum? Then there will be some way of evaluating the effectivness of the current 'control'. We can then see if this measure makes things better or worse if if there is no change at all.... I suspect there will be little change - which will be a good argument to leave it free of censorship to allow it to function as a safety net for the music-related one.

We may even be able to extend this approach to the music forum?