Well, Bob - we try our best to keep this an open forum, where everybody is free to speak out, and to have a good time. We censor as little as possible. However, when people post personal attacks on other individuals, that tends to scare away the recipient of the attack, so we may delete some of that. If we let some bully beat up on somebody else, is that freedom?
Yesterday, somebody started a thread with a message with a couple of links to porn sites. Usually, I just ignore messages like that and figure they'll drop off the Forum Menu. Other times, I'll get sneaky and change the porn links to this or this, or maybe alison's favorite site. For some reason, yesterday's nasty thread generated half a dozen or more indignant replies from our regulars, and each message brought the thread back up to the top. It was all a bunch of garbage and everybody was getting mad, so I deleted all the messages in the thread. I don't like doing that - I'd rather just have people freeze out flamers by ignoring them.
-Joe Offer-