Freedom of Speech

[Liquid_Memory]

You know its sad when moderators delete threads for no reason. Apparently I have been labeled as being someone else and all my threads have been deleted. This is unfair, and the people that have done this need to be removed as a moderator. I have been maliciously accused of a falsehood and feel that my rights for freedom of speech have been taken away from me. What is this world coming to? I have done nothing wrong, and in fact I thought I had a good thread going. If I didn't then it wouldn't of gotten over 1000 views in 5 days.

[ZokesPro]

I think that people thought you were Hpar_.

[Guru]

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30371

Originally posted by Ant

On the subject of moderators, these people have been chosen by me to help out on what is a pretty tough job, keeping these forums in line. The MURC is run pretty much single handedly by myself so I'm sure you will appreciate by the volume of posts made in these forums is a tough job to keep on top of all the threads. The forums have been up and running since back in 1997 and have formed what I think is a very good community. With any community new comers may find things a little strange, not understand some of the customs and traditions and will obviously not be aware of some of the informal rules that have formed over the years. We can be pretty strict on some things, but if you knew the history of why I'm sure you'd understand, we have had several instances in the past where these forums have almost been destroyed, both physically and culturally, by one or two individuals and I'm not prepared to let that happen again so at times I'm afraid some people do get stomped on quite heavily.

Moderators have been chosen by me from people who have been long standing residents of this community who I respect (oh God I'll never hear the end of that one! ). What I ask of the moderators is that they keep their forum on topic as much as possible, transfer threads to a more appropriate forum if necessary and let me know if any trouble appears. I do not demand that they suddenly change into a different person when they become moderators I take 'em warts and all Just because someone is a moderator does not mean you should expect them to be angelic, not answer back or flame back when they get flamed. I do ask that they behave ina way befitting the general community spirit that we have here.

People on these forums do have very good senses of humour although being such a diverse bunch a lot of it doesn't cross cultural barriers as easily as we might wish, especially my own. I find a lot of these types of misunderstandings are due to people misreading the intentions or humour of others. If you think some of these mods are mean then you should have been here back when I was trying to do it all on my own! With regard to the deletion of threads and posts by moderators they are free to do this in their own forum if they percieve the thread or post to be worthy of this. If they are unsure they always come to me and I deal with things directly. Moderators do not delete things just because they don't like them personally, hell if they did the Soap Box forum itself would have been deleted the way poor old Joel got abused when he took over!

Ok so all I'm asking now is we all shake hands and put any perceived differences and arguments aside and lets get on with things. Lets all be a little more tolerant of our neighbours and reread things if you are unsure of interpretation to avoid misunderstandings and arguments.

Anyways this should be taken up in the Site Feedback forum and not over here!

[rugger]

Don't you get it yet

You were deleted!

Your thread was deleted, you were banned! (why do you have a new account if you weren't banned)

Now piss off. Your right to freedom of speech is only with the govenment. Non-government entities may do whatever they want with their property, including removing annoying, snivelling, little minded idiots who are constantly causing trouble.

The moderator was completely within his/her rights to delete the thread and ban you. In fact, the moderator is within his/her rights do delete any thread/user they feel like.

[Liquid_Memory]

Guru, I understand exactly where you are coming from, I used to run a Bulletin Board System, for almost 20 years. since 1982, but with the recent invention of internet, the BBS scene has gone way down. At points and times, I would have over 100 users online in the teleconference, on the message boards, praying that they would behave in a respectable manner. Its not easy.
Especially when over 50% of your users are under the age of 18.

If I have given offense to anyone it is because they are offending me. If I have offended someone who has not offended me, I'm truely sorry.

What Rugger just wrote is offensive, but I will let it slide, because its just not worth the hassle.

Liquid Memory

I'm having Evaporated Illusions............

[KvHagedorn]

Well, LM.. My freedom of speech lets me tell you that you suck, your annoying avatar sucks, and you can take a swift leap off the planet at any time for all I care.

[ZokesPro]

?
Someone needs to fill me in, I seem to have missed something.

[Joel]

I agree that this should have been posted in the Site Feedback Forum but since Guru was so kind to post what would have been Ant's reply anyway I see no reason for this to be moved or continued.

As far as LM being Hpar_ I don't know that for sure but I can tell you that they have had the same IP address when posting. And have you ever notice they are never on here at the same time?

Joel