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Thread #91184 Message #1734408
Posted By: The Shambles
07-May-06 - 03:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is closing threads censorship?
Subject: RE: BS: Is closing threads censorship?
OK, Shambles, be specific. Explain these draconian Mudcat rules to us, and demonstrate why it is that they are so oppressive. The ones I recall are: no personal attacks, no spam, no racism, no non-music copy-pastes longer than one page, and be civil to other participants.
Joe Offer
I can recall a lot more of your petty restrictions that that and you are rather missing the restriction you really want to impose on our forum and will not seemingly rest until you have your way on this also.
Is calling a fellow poster a buffoon, idiot, an asshole or a looney on different occasions - being civil to other participants? Or do these rules not apply to the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team, some of his moderators and supporters (or the usual suspects)?
Any rules that are unclear and are only selectively enforced, offer posters no protection from personally motivated censorship actions and offer no protection to those imposing their judgement, from any subsequent claim that those actions were personally motivated.
How can our forum expect to be protected from abusive personal attacks when (some) of our moderators and the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team, set the example that this is acceptable and excusable? Perhaps you would accept that such posts are NEVER acceptable and excusable and apologise to me and our forum - rather than attempting to justify ever indulging in such conduct or responding in kind to it?
If you repeatedly indulge in setting the example of publicly posting abusive personal attacks to call posters like me names and some other known moderators do this and and least two of them call for me to be banned - can you really expect our forum to judge that any censorship of my postings - is NOT personally motivated?
And where there is any question of imposed censorship being personally motivated - it will - with some justification be judged by our forum as oppressive and unfair. But mostly ineffective and counter-productive and any attempt to maintian and justify it - will continue to be seen to be a very poor joke at our forum's expense.