27-10-2023, 02:32 PM
I would say laws tend to be made by the rich and powerful to protect the interests of the rich and powerful more often than not!
From comments above it seems my addressing a few home truths, and particularly my pointing at the elephant in the room over the nature of forums in general, has indeed scared the horses.
Obviously without forum owners putting the effort into starting and running forums our worlds would be a little darker and sadder a place. Maybe the way they tend to be run and moderated is the only practical one at the end of the day... I just don't like the way owners and mods have "absolute power" over the free speech of others and with no means of comeback, complaint or redress.
I can't be the only one to (for example) have spent over an hour composing a long technical reply to a thread, time spent attaching schematics and photos, time spent checking facts etc, only to find the post, which certainly complied with AUP, deleted within 5 mins with no explanation. It's certainly happened to me before and it has made me apoplectically angry.
It's no different to if you'd been bent over an A4 page writing a letter/essay for an hour and someone had walked in and grabbed the paper, scrunched it up and thrown it in the bin. That's how it feels to me anyway. Complain about it and you're likely to find yourself banned. You scratch your head trying to think of why it was deleted and it dawns on you that the previous day you strongly disagreed with the site owner or a mod over eg which was better the "Acme MkI" or the "MkII" ... You are left with the only conclusion that fits being that the post was deleted in "payback" for disagreeing with them! It was personal.... and there's nothing you can do about it as AUP will usually have a clause of "all moderation decisions are final and are not open for discussion".
I do tend to address subjects which many others seem to find too controversial for discussion, in real life as well as on line, so if using a forum to point out some of the injustices and idiosyncrasy's common in forums in general is considered as having overstepped the line then no offence intended, and I'm sure my posts will moderated as this forum owner feels appropriate
From comments above it seems my addressing a few home truths, and particularly my pointing at the elephant in the room over the nature of forums in general, has indeed scared the horses.
Obviously without forum owners putting the effort into starting and running forums our worlds would be a little darker and sadder a place. Maybe the way they tend to be run and moderated is the only practical one at the end of the day... I just don't like the way owners and mods have "absolute power" over the free speech of others and with no means of comeback, complaint or redress.
I can't be the only one to (for example) have spent over an hour composing a long technical reply to a thread, time spent attaching schematics and photos, time spent checking facts etc, only to find the post, which certainly complied with AUP, deleted within 5 mins with no explanation. It's certainly happened to me before and it has made me apoplectically angry.
It's no different to if you'd been bent over an A4 page writing a letter/essay for an hour and someone had walked in and grabbed the paper, scrunched it up and thrown it in the bin. That's how it feels to me anyway. Complain about it and you're likely to find yourself banned. You scratch your head trying to think of why it was deleted and it dawns on you that the previous day you strongly disagreed with the site owner or a mod over eg which was better the "Acme MkI" or the "MkII" ... You are left with the only conclusion that fits being that the post was deleted in "payback" for disagreeing with them! It was personal.... and there's nothing you can do about it as AUP will usually have a clause of "all moderation decisions are final and are not open for discussion".
I do tend to address subjects which many others seem to find too controversial for discussion, in real life as well as on line, so if using a forum to point out some of the injustices and idiosyncrasy's common in forums in general is considered as having overstepped the line then no offence intended, and I'm sure my posts will moderated as this forum owner feels appropriate
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