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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - New feature discussion
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To: SI Brad who wrote (54)7/7/2011 9:00:53 AM
From: Dale Baker4 Recommendations   of 7361
 
Without moderation and bans, some threads would be totally overrun by the clique on SI that logs on every day just to be as abusive as they can to their political enemies. Since TOU is typically not enforced by SI on non-stock threads, moderation is the only way to preserve a reasonable atmosphere, i.e. screening out those who get off on constant personal attacks.

It also keeps the serial abusers from polluting stock threads with their political grudges. Of course, if those abusers were simply tossed from the site for constant TOU violations, that would solve the problem too.

But at the same time, the folks who are banned from some threads have thousands of other threads to exercise their speech on, including unmoderated threads that look like a constant food fight.

Don't remove the moderation and ban features lightly. Though I agree that post deletions should be left to SI admin alone. I've found that banning and Ignoring offenders is more than enough to keep the peace.
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