Originally posted by John Paul Sanborn
Enough people complaind so i killed it.
... but after the seventh or eighth request for removal, all touching on the perception non proffesionals may have on our industry, I deleted it.
If you want to talk about bodily functions, or make off colored ethnic statements, then go to the chat room.
The terms of use state that we the site reserves the right to decide what is acceptable discourse.
As I have said before, Darin has given me discresion, if you have any complaints take them to him. He has not said anything to me yet.
so as the old Chinese saying goes;
Kwee cho b'chen
Didn't WalMart pull a jigsaw puzzle off its shelves just after 9/11 because one person complained it showed the WTC on its cover?
What was that complaint? Body functions? Disrespect? An inability to understand that before 9/11, there was 9/10, and 9/9, and so back?
We have 7 or 8 people concerned about the"non-professional's" perceptions of us. What does that mean? That they don't whizz?
And why should the chat room provide any moral shelter? Can't the "non-professionals" go there as easily as we? And, boom, there go their perceptions again!
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Having the power of censorship is a big responsibility. Confined to pees and poops, it stays adolescent and younger; big deal.
But that same power always seems to get expanded to other issues, and our indvidual basic prejudices and perspectives creep in.
Keeping that power means watching our own predispositions and trying to keep them separate from the dialogues. Starting down a road of deciding what matters and what is of value according to one single decision-maker is a very slippery slope. It doesn't matter if 50 people complained, the action was taken by one.
Mr Justice Black would ask his clerks if the case before the Supreme Court was in printed form. If it was, they knew, as far as he was concerned, the book or pamphlet was protected by the Constitution and could not be reviewed for its content--and he would never even bother to open it.
What makes this forum valuable is the character and content of its writers. That's the magic.
Writers migrate to where they feel comfortable about writing and where they think they will be listened to with some respect. There are also many subtlities laced through the forums that determine their success in readership.
Go back and look at the ISA page; it isn't just dormant; it's gone to join the choir invisible. Why did that happen? Why is this a more vibrant and assertive site?
If you look for an answer for what goes well here, I don't think it will include a pair of scissors in the discovery.
Bob Wulkowicz.