Unacceptable Advertising / Solicitation Thread

[Bird]

OK, Scooby074 and MikePA answered while I was typing and looking to see if the explanation was in the FAQ and I didn't find it there.

 

[Charlesaf3]

MossRoad - lets just say I understand your second point very well...

 

[brin]

Well, thanks, but the other mods beat me most of the time. I'm not kidding, either. Those guys are FAST!

You can say that again...the moderators are fast..Bird got me when I first joined for telling a farm related joke....I had read the rules and jokes were not mentioned as being forbidden..but my post was zapped immediately and I was PM'ed immediately and I have not told a joke since, heck I haven't even smiled as I post...LOl

 

[J_J]

Sometimes, FREEDOM OF SPEECH does not apply. I wonder at the legal aspects of limiting or removing part of, or the total post. Moderation is OK to an extent, but can sometimes go overboard on censorship. While we are mostly grown adults on this web site, we are are moderated by the thoughts, ideas, and individual principles of the moderators. Some are more tolerant than others. It also becomes almost a full time job of keeping up with everything. I have seen things that were taken out of my post, but left in other post. I guess some rules are not necessarily the same rules for everyone.

 

[MossRoad]

We tries our best!

 

[Bird]

Sometimes, FREEDOM OF SPEECH does not apply. I wonder at the legal aspects of limiting or removing part of, or the total post. Moderation is OK to an extent, but can sometimes go overboard on censorship. While we are mostly grown adults on this web site, we are are moderated by the thoughts, ideas, and individual principles of the moderators. Some are more tolerant than others. It also becomes almost a full time job of keeping up with everything. I have seen things that were taken out of my post, but left in other post. I guess some rules are not necessarily the same rules for everyone.

J.J., I think there's some misunderstanding here. Freedom of Speech applies to the government. Can I come into your home or business and say anything I want to say, no matter what you think of it? Of course not. Well, websites are private property and the owner has a right to set the rules the same as you set the rules on your property. Anyone who doesn't like the rules you set on your property is free to leave. You wonder about the legal aspects of limiting or removing part of, or the total post. Did you read the Terms of Use? You don't have to wonder about it anymore. You can be sure it's legal.

Moderated by the thoughts, ideas, and individual principles of the moderators.

Well, I hope not. The moderators are simply volunteer members who try to assist the website owner with the rules HE establishes. Are we perfect? Of course not. Does everyone always interpret the rules exactly the same? Nope. Everyone doesn't even interpret the civil and criminal laws of our nation the same. Even judges disagree sometimes, right on up to the U.S. Supreme Court. At least we don't have to go that high. One man, the owner of the website, is the final authority.

I guess some rules are not necessarily the same rules for everyone.

The rules are the same, but the moderators don't catch everyone, just as the police don't catch every criminal. So the moderators have to also depend on other members to use that little red triangle in the lower left corner of each post to report problems.