barabbas, regarding moderation. You keep harping on like this thread is like North Korea and making it sound like there is hard censorship going on, this is false and you are spreading FUD in doing so.
Moderation was actually requested *by the community*. The moderation is light, in fact very, very occasional - you will see I actually only deleted on post since this recent FUD started, in fact, that's the first post since a long long time that has been deleted. There is plenty negative stuff here that probably should have been removed, but I chose not too. There are clear moderation rules as was agreed by the community many many months ago and those are the rules I stick to. Additionally, while I do not like price talk in the thread, if you want to talk about price go ahead, if people complain it gets too noisy we'll need to revisit it.
No, sorry, this is not
false. Nor FUD. I don't do either. This is, exactly like North Korea, regarding (lack of freedom of speech. That you will arbitrarily decide what or what not to censor is hardly the matter here. It will depend strictly on your mood that moment, how "benevolent" you feel or how your boat is rocked. THAT is, precisely, the point. And, I harp about it all the time and will continue "harping" forever. These forums are already moderated -quite arbitrarily and bordering on the ridiculous, I must add- by their owners. It's their platform, they give it (to us) for free, so we either play by their rules or leave. That's quite different to adding yet another, voluntary, layer of censorship to the moderation that already exists.
You try to excuse the "moderation" as being very limited, which is purely circumstantial and avoids completely the more important part of your censorship: The self-imposed censorship that everyone who posts here is subject to by themselves in their effort to "comply with the rules".
Again in an effort to justify the unjustifiable, you pretend these rules, that censorship, were set by the community... NOT TRUE. We all know the community participation in these consultations, not to mention the drawing of "the rules" is less than minimal and therefore subject to manipulation, your manipulation. Why is this even brought to consideration? There's no "problem" with the exercise of total freedom of speech. Everyone can ignore posts or even posters altogether quite easily. Everyone actually already does on a regular basis. Stop calling what it is not and call it like it is: Freaky exercise or arbitrary control. Period.
I could write much more, but "chompy Z", above, have made a very good post about it, so no need to.
Another matter: Repetition: In the exercise in contradiction that you are, you complain about "posts being buried very quickly in this forum", as a negative thing, yet, the following post, you mention -again and again- the "rule of no repetition" as a WARNING. What is it? Should we let posts be buried by new pages of activity and never repeat content? the "rule of no repetition" directly implies that... which you hate! So it all comes down to reality, right? It is your obsession with control behind the whole thing, nothing else: To have the capacity even if, "benevolently" exercise the option "sparingly" (depending on the times and, yes, the price of the coin on the exchanges. Amazing, simply amazing. I guess as long as people don't ask about the ins and outs of the "Zinga brouahaha", their posts are relatively safe?
