Date Posted:11:42:46 04/19/05 Tue Author: Chris Subject: Re: moderation is not censorship In reply to:
Tony Lang
's message, "Re: moderation is not censorship" on 08:30:40 04/19/05 Tue
Your reasons for being so quick off the mark could be
1 That you are a very loyal and faithful friend and will like any true friend go to any lengths to defend him or her.
2 That you dont think coadmin is very intelligent and he/she needs you to defend them.
I don't know why you make such weird speculations. I didn't even know who of the coadmins made that comment when I answered you and didn't think about him at all. It was just a response to your posting only and solely, a posting that compared moderation and enforcing our declared netiquette with "censoring" and thus annoyed me. And I was so quick simply because I as just online and we had discussed this already in extenso and I only had to repeat the same arguments.
However my point is not at all to suggest that they are freeer than ours, (I would doubt this) but rather that ours should be and remain the most free. I am sure that you will not challenge me on this.
Sorry, I challenge you on this. What do you mean with most free? If you want to have a forum that is as free as possible, that is very simple. Just create a forum here and let anybody, including viagra spammers, post on it. I have already suggested that you may create your own forum if that's your goal. Your forum will be much more free than ours. But I doubt it would be helpful, informative, relevant and on-topic, meaningful and objective, and not hurting ex members.
Our netiquette sets a certain and very reasonable frame that allows postings of UBFs members and posting of dissenting opinions, as long as they have a minimum level of seriousness, readyness to discuss and information content.
You also were wondering why I dont send annonymous letters to ubf web sites to compare their degree of freedom with ours. Doesn't it occur to you that the reason I cannot do this is that I dont Know any addresses.
No, it doesn't occur to me, since there were often links to UBF sites on this forum, including apologetic sites and their main website chicago.ubf.org or from where you get links to all other chapters.
