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<b>ATTENTION THREAD MEMBERS!</b><br>
<br>
Here is a draft of a letter of support for Sioux Pal, to be sent to SI
Admin today.<br>
<br>
Please, right away from you:<br>
<br>
-- any suggestions for further points to be made<br>
-- your support in the form of inclusion of your posting name<br>
<br>
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<br>
Dear SI Admin,<br>
<br>
The undersigned write to request that you restore posting <br>
privileges immediately for the Moderator of this thread "Sioux Pal" for
these reasons:<br>
<br>
-- as moderator, he has performed in an exemplary manner, allowing free
participation to anyone and banning only those whose primary interest
in the thread is a venue for argumentation and personal abuse. In our
view, those are the people that sully the threads on SI, and as proof
of that we suggest that you go to the investment threads on Yahoo.
Probably looking at any thread for 10 posts should convince you on this
point.<br>
<br>
-- very often scatalogical language is used by such people as part of
their personal abuse and invective. This has never been tolerated by
Sioux Pal, regardless of the otherwise meritorious<br>
nature of the contributions they have to make.<br>
<br>
-- the use of the word "f*ck" these days is utterly commonplace. As
proof of that go to:<br>
google.com;
<br>
and you will find about 8,540,000 instances.<br>
<br>
Among those you will find good discussions of the use of the<br>
word such as:<br>
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en.wikipedia.org;
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As an example of widespread usage, we refer you to the HBO <br>
series "Deadwood" which occurs often daily from 9pm onwards<br>
on cable television. Here are the statistics on its use of the<br>
word "f*ck"<br>
<br>
en.wikipedia.org;
<br>
Cable TV series: Deadwood<br>
<br>
"HBO's series Deadwood had a reputation for salty dialogue even before
the first episode aired. It was nearly impossible, they said, to keep
count of the number of f-words spoken during each program. We took it
as a challenge.<br>
<br>
Total fucks in series: 1519<br>
Cumulative series FPM: 1.45<br>
<br>
Total fucks in Season Two: 688<br>
Average fucks per episode: 98.3<br>
Cumulative Season Two FPM: 1.84<br>
<br>
Total fucks in Season One: 831<br>
Average fucks per episode: 69.3<br>
Cumulative Season One FPM: 1.23 "<br>
<br>
We understand that the Supreme Court has addressed the matter of the
use of such language on public television and has ruled that it is
allowable at broadcasting times when minors are not likely to be
present (from 9 pm local time onwards). We would submit that
posting on SI is an implicitly ADULT environment <br>
and therefore there should be NO ban on the occasional use of such
language.<br>
<br>
-- Based on Google search, SI is hardly a cesspool of filth revolving
around the use of the word "f*ck". <br>
This search on Google<br>
google.com;
<br>
turns up only 136 instances, most of which are not ON SI--presumably
for the reason that your posts are in the database and not directly
addressable by Google. So it is VERY unlikely that anyone looking for
"f*ck" action would find their way to SI.<br>
<br>
In short, we believe that cutting the posting privileges of <br>
Sioux Pal and leaving a moderated thread unmoderated is unjustified,
unnecessary and unwise.<br>
<br>
A simple possible solution is your posting the updated SI policy on
these matters (or directing us to it) including the listing of specific
words that you wish to minimize or avoid. This could be pointed to in
the Opening Post of the thread.<br>
<br>
Understand that there is a fine line between the application of your
"property rights" as SI Admin and the <br>
"freedom of speech" rights granted in the U.S. Constitution and
amendments. So I think you would agree that your censoring rights
are considerably less than those of a Minister over the activity within
his/her Church or a School Teacher over the activity in his/her
classroom. And likely less than those applied to broadcast over the
public air waves.<br>
<br>
Let's simply find an adult and non-repressive answer to the <br>
so-called problem and restore our Moderator forthwith. <br>
<br>
We need him!<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
<br>
(thread members)<br>
James Calladine<br>
YOUR NAME HERE<br>
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