[quote name='Oxblood' post='16090' date='Jun 12 2007, 10:49 AM']I am trying to help you find the right balance - it's just that our respective concepts of what constitutes balance are at variance. Mine is rooted in the basic principle that it is the forum members themselves who should decide what they want to say and in what terms it should be expressed, with the moderators intervening only if threads degenerate into personal insult, if slanderous statements are made that could get the forum itself into legal hot water, or if prompted to do so by complaints of offence from fellow members.
As you will be aware, I lodged a protest recently regarding an edit that was made to one of my own posts. SHG's reply explained that there is apparently a problem with some members being unable to access the site from workplace computers, because their employers' 'bad language' filters were being triggered to block the content, and consequently action was being taken to avoid this happening. This all sounds very fair and reasonable, until you analyze what it really means in practice, and witness what it has now resulted in: a situation where the moderators are experimenting with blanket bowdlerization of our discourse - with inevitably farcical results. I can only repeat here what I said to him: it's a sad state of affairs indeed when Basschat forum policy is effectively being dictated by the corporate prudery of organizations with which we have no connection and to whom we owe no duty at all.[/quote]
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