Quittintime: Censorship

And the beat goes on.

A couple days ago there was a couple of threads pulled over at the Classic. Folks began asking as usual, what's going on. Now Dino is busy so the response wasn't immediate-which I'm sure miffed some, but for the most part the response and questions were pretty tame compared to the way they've been here and on the couple other forums that are visited.

I find it interesting because of all that transpired over at the old BT. Further, what showed up here when threads were pulled and the bannings took place at BT, was pretty heated. So vengeful in fact we had a couple folks leave here because they didn't want to abide by the simple rules of decency, common sense and a modicum of decorum.

Early on the Classic set down the rules of no politics. This seems to be what might have set this recent action off. Still, whole thread pulling to weed out some posts that don't stay in tune with the protocol seems ill advised. Afterall, it's what soured many when it was done at BT. Throw a couple bannings in the mix and it sounds all too familiar.

(EDIT: And that is the odd thing.............there was no politics that I can remember, only a welcome back to Colleen. Now as shown below, there's no love lost between Dino and Splinter. That was made visible here pretty clearly and was one of the things we tried to throw cold water on.)

At least there was some reasoning given, unlike the silence of the moderators at Breaktime-man, that used to irk the daylights outta me. No one to ask, no communication, no reasoning. Admittedly, you don't have to answer, but it sure makes life a little more open.

Here's the response and reasons given:

From: Dinosaur (xDINOx) 17:57 to: oldbeachbum (Oldbeachbum1) Unread 3 of 3

3825.3 in reply to 3825.1

I am not going to fuel the fire by entering into an interminable discussion of this. However, for the record:

Splintergroupie was one of the three most abusive and incorrigible members of the old BT at Taunton, and has a history of creating new user IDs everytime she was banned there and coming back to spam the board with her invective and anger. She was probably 80% responsible for 'the big putsch' over there when Taunton upper management came down on JP like the wrath of Odin, and large numbers of innocent bystanders got banned. I will not tolerate her acting in the same way here; I also do not have the time or desire to manage the kind of trouble she can cause. And this incident, coming within 24 hours of her reappearance, should be ample demostration of just how much trouble that is.

It is quite true that I don't like her; but there are a number of people here I do not like and I do not ban them because of that. If she had behaved in accordance with the rules that everyone else has followed with good enough grace, she would still have posting privileges no matter what I think of her personally. This is not a personal vendetta; it is a management decision.

She has been gagged, and will remain gagged. Paul B in CT has been banned because of his spamming the board last night.

That is the end of my statement. And now I have supper to cook, a driveway to shovel out, and a union meeting to attend.

e=mc² (±1db)

Edited by calvin (Thu Dec 09 2010 02:20 PM)

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