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Censorship on the Forum

Marcus de Brun September 26, 2018 at 08:17 4350 views 19 comments
Censorship is good and is important. However on occasion it is used for personal or a general subterranean agenda. This happens when certain ideas are banned or moved or merged into other threads.

I feel that most moderators engage in their thankless role, with as much impartiality and respect for Philosophy as possible. Others I feel do not.

Thankfully there are mechanisms to control the emergence of autocratic thought, Trump is subject thankfully to the censorship of the courts.

Who if anyone is moderating the moderators?

M

Comments (19)

Streetlight September 26, 2018 at 08:25 #215364
If you have a particular problem, raise it, otherwise threads like these tend to descend into alot of trash talk. So get to it - what's your issue?
unenlightened September 26, 2018 at 08:56 #215369
Quoting Marcus de Brun
Who if anyone is moderating the moderators?


That would be me. Have I missed something?
Baden September 26, 2018 at 09:00 #215371
Reply to unenlightened

Yes, while you've been off sipping tea, the place has gone to pot. :( Guide us...
S September 26, 2018 at 09:15 #215374
But who, if anyone, is moderating the moderator moderators?
unenlightened September 26, 2018 at 09:29 #215379
Quoting Baden
the place has gone to pot. :( Guide us.


Stick to Lebanese and Thai sticks for a lighter brighter high.
Marcus de Brun September 26, 2018 at 09:31 #215380
Reply to unenlightened

Quoting unenlightened
That would be me. Have I missed something?


Yes.

Streetlight has a particularly keen interest in my moderation (I suspect he fancies me)

M
andrewk September 26, 2018 at 09:32 #215381
You have discovered my personal religion. It is based on the following rules.

1. Everything that moderates must be moderated, unless it's the special exception that I may mention later on.
2. There exists a unique unmoderated moderator, and this premise absolutely does not contradict premise 1.
3. I call that unmoderated moderator God.
Streetlight September 26, 2018 at 09:39 #215382
Quoting Marcus de Brun
(I suspect he fancies me)


I've been found out :yikes:
Marcus de Brun September 26, 2018 at 09:45 #215384
Reply to StreetlightX Quoting StreetlightX
I've been found out :yikes:


Have no fear (said the cat)

We can make love.

But only through the medium of Philosophy and without the coitus interruptio of your zealous moderation.

Relax, and try to enjoy it!

I promise to be more gentle.

M


Streetlight September 26, 2018 at 09:47 #215385
Make better threads and we can zeal all day and all night :smile:
unenlightened September 26, 2018 at 09:48 #215386
Quoting Marcus de Brun
Streetlight has a particularly keen interest in my moderation


Think of @StreetlightX as the Devil, tasked to afflict you with boils, and so on. It's all part of the character-building plan.
Marcus de Brun September 26, 2018 at 10:09 #215390
Reply to unenlightened

One has no problem with the Devil and his boils.

As far as I am aware he has no offspring himself, and may well be impotent? (It may be the source of all his anger and all of the evil in this world?)

Be it impotence or impudence, his friends and peers might offer some counsel. There are ways and means that either pathology can be effectively managed.

As Zizek often states: 'one must not try to defeat the devil, but have him do ones bidding.'

He is the dog of dogs, but can be useful nonetheless.

M
Baden September 26, 2018 at 10:12 #215391
Reply to Marcus de Brun

@StreetlightX, to my knowledge, is no more zealous than any of the rest of us in modding. And throwing out a bunch of insults isn't going to help solve any feedback issue.
Marcus de Brun September 26, 2018 at 10:14 #215393
Reply to Baden

How sweet, the sound of tears falling!

Methinks another 'just' moderation is upon the horizon.

:rofl:

M
Hanover September 26, 2018 at 10:19 #215394
Not a lot of substance to this thread.
S September 26, 2018 at 10:20 #215395
I've just been censored by StreetlightX and I'm okay with that. The guy's just doing his job. Leave Britney alone.
Baden September 26, 2018 at 10:21 #215396
Reply to Marcus de Brun

Don't even know what the previous "just" moderations you were complaining of were, seeing as you insist on being oblique about it. But, ok, have it your way.
Streetlight September 26, 2018 at 10:21 #215397
Quoting Hanover
Not a lot of substance to this thread.


I suppose it's only fitting that I'm now going to close this thread as a result! :)

User image

Woof!
Baden September 26, 2018 at 10:21 #215398
Reply to S

Just saw that. :eyes: