Discussion of Warning System

[Kinser79]

(05-14-2016, 06:04 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: I'm with Kinser'79/Bronco80 on this. I find it odd to censor stuff just because some fascist sites upstream like to do this stuff. I say, if some wahoo fascist .gov or .com site censors,  it's THEIR loss. I'm a moderator on a mailing list and I don't censor any of the "7 words you can't say on TeeeVeee. I just censor spams, out of hand flame wars [I just ask the participants to take the conversation offline. ], and blatant ad-homs. I know that's not doable here.  I don't know if there's a way to make a mosh pit thread.

I did suggest an "off topic" forum. Honestly I don't know how one can prevent flame wars from happening (and I've run many forums in my day), the least intrusive way I've found is to lock the thread and let it get buried.

(05-14-2016, 06:10 PM)Webmaster Wrote: I've listened and disabled the filters, just keep it out of the subject lines.

Thank you. Keeping expletives out of subject lines is an acceptable compromise. However, I don't think that we really can control who blocks or doesn't block the forum. In general though I don't think we'd ever cross the line into territories where blocking usually occurs.

I know that were I a moderator I'd not only delete pornographic material, or ads for impotence pills (or similar) but I'd probably ban the poster who posted it unless I knew for certain that said poster was not a spam bot.