Moderation and censorship at virtual forums. [Discussion]

@Yen: IMHO, your post should be pinned so that -every- new member reads it.

The Admins and MODS of MDL are the most fair, open minded people that I've ever encountered.
If they delete or edit a post, there's usually a darn good reason for it.

'Nuff said.

 

I agree, fully. I feel the same since ages.
Other forums staff are sensitive schoolgirls reacting like they're being molested or harassed by a perv.

 

Not the first time my posts have been edited and I'm sure it won't be the last as long as I go off topic on any thread, or make a mean statement about someone. It's really just that simple. I just "get over it" and go on. no problem.

 

Well, if that is the case how about removing ALL posts which are involved in a "controversy" and not just some posts which react to something rather objectionable?!?

There certainly is censorship and it is - Human! I.e. not exactly non-objectionable, as in done equally from the same principles towards all posts...

For instance, I was responding to some nonsense about race and my post which was detailed and definitively proved the "objector" didn't know what he was talking about and yet mine was removed and his was left standing.... Seriously?!?

I have a proposal: if you are about to remove a post - why not ask the person for clarification first, then see if anything needs adding to make it more transparent etc. and then the issues could be debated further if necessary and not use a bloody 50 pound smasher to crack open a nut...

 

Your not the only member that had their post removed in that thread...
get over it, it's just a post on a forum. In the world scene....we are not that important.

 

@gorski: I have an idea...How about you start your own forum and then you can set it up however you want.

Their forum...their rules.

Either respect their rules or hit the road.

P.S: If you were a member of any forum that I was running, I would have banned you already.

 

@Yen

since you started this topic about moderation am gonna bring this to your notice.

i had reported this post :

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/discussion-about-coronavirus.81224/page-4#post-1584532

this was said for @case-sensitive to be precise for his mother.

the post still exists. not sure if it was you or someone else from admin but the post was allowed.

am surprised that this is coming from @Joe C 60+ years of age & worldly wise. the post was also liked by @nodnar

i would still ask you to remove that post as it outright offensive & hitting below the belt.

your call.

 

@Joe C

allow me to jog your memory, this was posted by @case-sensitive :

you just picked on the last line of the post & replied this :

are you trying to feign ignorance ?

 

Joe, you are the least likely person to offer any advice to anyone on anything to do with any kind of moral high ground. Your posts are frequently just downright aggressive, crude, rude, arrogant to the bone, as if you and your conservative lot are the sole owners of common sense. They are also deliberately short, offering no explanations, no rational argumentation but are strictly personal, aggressive and calculated to be offensive and nothing else! I do not start like that with anyone! But I do retaliate when mean and nasty characters do that to me, sure! Is that the same? It sure as Hell isn't but the likes of you throw a stone and run, hide behind a crowd, behind numbers, others like you who come with the same agenda, with the same "values"... Makes me wanna vomit! Time and time again this kind of mobbing keeps happening here!

In this case, specifically: after the post I carefully worded and argued rationally, you posted just to be abusive and offensive, offering no arguments of any kind. That is what I call WEAK!!! A COWARD!!! So kindly pi&& off with your "sound advice"!!! You and a few others here know nothing else but to jump on a bandwagon and mob a person hiding behind a crowd, with your herd mentality! It's not the first time you are behaving like an a-hole!

I did not start any racist garbage, I can NOT post ANY such nonsense, as I am not a racist by any stretch of imagination - QUITE THE OPPOSITE!!! I reacted rationally to some nonsense about which way racism is bent and I rationally argued against it. Others have agreed and argued from other, similar grounds that what that person (Bat1) was talking is completely uniformed nonsense but oh no... Because he is black and I am white - somehow, by some magic, he must be right and I must be wrong! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! Whites can not be discriminated against, they can't know what discrimination is and he must by default, no matter how crass and ill-informed his posts are - he MUST be right because he is black. Right, are Jews "white" or "black"? I bet a few of those people could tell him about discrimination. Some 30 million Slavs disappeared during WWII as "less worthy" and hence "of lesser standing" in Nazi-Fascist eyes. In the UK, not so long ago, one could see pub signs saying "No dogs and the Irish". I could go on but what's the point?!? Bat1 MUST be right when he claims that he MUST know more about this COMPLEX PHENOMENON than me, who studied the issues for decades, who experienced it first hand, who exchanged the stories with groups of people like myself, who were by definition on the bottom of the social scale, at the receiving end of "institutional racism", as a UK Commission charged with investigating the phenomenon in the UK has called it!

I don't care who is from which country, of which parentage, what religion, as I am a universalist! To me there is only one race: Human race. All else is BS! In that spirit, I only care about arguments, rational, informed arguments. But oh no... And there were people applauding this absolute nonsense! "Oh, yeah, as if (gorski) could possibly know this, he is white, you are way superior when it comes to understanding racism and where it comes from, how it is to be understood" and so on. Imagine somebody seriously claiming that x group is by definition more informed on any subject just because they are x. Seriously? Anyone heard of Nazis? Because that is that sort of thinking. Inverted - but the same kind of thinking!!!!! Has Corona eaten everyone's brains completely?!?

Last time I checked there are nationalists, xenophobes, genocidal maniacs and racists on all continents, in all countries, so WTH?!?

Deleting a universalist post like mine, while leaving all that particularistic nonsense to stand is seriously offensive!!!

This is what I call BAD CENSORSHIP because it is superficial and UNTHINKING!!!

 

Damn straight!!! And it ain't the first time!!! It's ABOMINABLE BEHAVIOUR!!!! And he constantly does this, wherever he can!!! And he's not the only one! There is a whole group of nasty right-wing "brains" who keep doing this - one provokes, the other attacks, then before you know it, THEY complain when somebody returns the favour - and then everyone forgets who started it and how, no one wants to go into details and WRONG People get penalised and censored. Scandalous!!!

 

On my forums there wasn't, there isn't and there never will be any space for nasty right wingers of any kind, plus their enablers (like you now)! All such "geniuses" and their "compassless" enablers get to know the consequences of any such nonsense!

 

@gorski

not sure if you saw it but right after my post, post #10 in this thread @Joe C made a post trying to shun all knowledge of his misdemeanor but that post seems to have magically disappeared.

@Joe C

that was so brave of you.

 

Sorry, my bad, I was imprecise: I should have said "of late, developed democracies" - I don't take Bolsonazi, Orban or Duterte seriously, for instance, and I don't expect anything rational from totalitarian regimes....

 

It's was only a reply to a very insensitive post, If you agreed with that post, then I feel the same towards you also.
If anything gorski posts about me mattered, I would reply....
Obviously I don't care about gorski or what his views are, it is easy to ignore a lot of blabber.

 

That's really well caught and documented by you! I have seen such behaviour on this forum many times and Joe was always on the wrong side of the debate, so I am not surprised.

I mean, I even had to put up a fight with some prominent coders here who were neo-Nazi, White supremacist pro-eugenics barstewards and similar "appeasement" was to be seen on the forum!

NO to that! Enough BS! One must stand up for the best principles Humanity has on offer! And the kind of behaviour him and nodnar, plus some of their enablers are doing, is just WRONG and must be opposed!!!

I have reported these posts before I saw this thread. I was right and a big thank you to anyone standing up and being counted! It's high time!!!

To clarify: I don't have a problem when somebody is un- or ill-informed but when they want to set the standards regardless of what they know, how much they have studied etc. - oh, well...

As a principle: I wouldn't remove their posts but I would seriously and rationally argue against their musings! And I would return their insults with interest - but well grounded (and that is when they go nuts and start crying their eyes out to the admin, as if they are the poor offended side, when in fact they started it, as a rule and they are actually rubbing their nasty little hands behind their backs, wickedly laughing...)! Call me Old Testament but...

 

So much from somebody with a "moral high ground"...

 

if an mdl member makes an insensitive post you report that post, why drag his / her mother in to it ?

this is what you wrote for @case-sensitive :

are you saying the same for me as well ?