Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:26 am
#1755367
My memory is the same as Ian's - also the same in lacking the details.
The subject has never been "banned" here, or "free speech" denied - despite what some disingenuous* other forum owners like to claim loudly and often.
What is banned is e.g.: picking fights, grinding axes and generally being a nuisance - and unfortunately in the past the subject has attracted all of those. The upshot of that - as warned clearly in the Code of Conduct - is that threads will get locked or removed.
Why locked or removed rather than edited? Because the volunteer Mods don't have time or inclination to sort wheat from the chaff in fast-moving threads on complex subjects, and why should we? Posters should be disciplined enough to follow the clear guidelines.
If they don't, and the threads get lost because of it, then the fault lies with those difficult posters and not with the forum management.
*A word with some forum history. It is apposite this time.
The subject has never been "banned" here, or "free speech" denied - despite what some disingenuous* other forum owners like to claim loudly and often.
What is banned is e.g.: picking fights, grinding axes and generally being a nuisance - and unfortunately in the past the subject has attracted all of those. The upshot of that - as warned clearly in the Code of Conduct - is that threads will get locked or removed.
Why locked or removed rather than edited? Because the volunteer Mods don't have time or inclination to sort wheat from the chaff in fast-moving threads on complex subjects, and why should we? Posters should be disciplined enough to follow the clear guidelines.
If they don't, and the threads get lost because of it, then the fault lies with those difficult posters and not with the forum management.
*A word with some forum history. It is apposite this time.