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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (16171)	6/8/2001 10:45:54 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If the sole reason for banning people was a profusion of off- topic posts, you would have a point. If the qualifications for participation were clearly set out, which, in my experience, is not usually true, you might have a point. Instead, it is easy for people to wander onto moderated threads in all innocence and to be treated shabbily. They are going to complain. As I said, the rationale that some number of people will cease to use the SI site unless they can exercise greater control over discussions, and that there is a marketplace of threads, may be sufficient to justify moderated threads, but one should not expect that there will be no controversy......

To: Solon who wrote (16171)	6/8/2001 11:58:06 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Moderated threads were established, and thus they exist. They were established to provide places where like-minded people could congregate..." We can use some of the experience of the happy folks in the Third Reich. Filter, filter little Nazi, let there be no paparazzi... This is the land of the free and we fortunately write what we want, where we want and people don't read it if they don't like it, it's simple math. Also, take a look - most of the moderated threads are wheezing from a lack of participants, yours most especially.