Censorship Already?
Quote from: God I have made three posts to this forum and all three of them have been deleted.
The first was a flippant but certainly not offensive 'hello' to test that my account was working ok.
... I'd seen your first post, and was intrigued - when the forum eventually let me back in (see post elsewhere about the delays being experienced at getting [most] community-site pages here) I looked at your profile to see what else you might have posted .... and saw the Forum Rules thread.
Slightly stunned at the moderator's "rebuke" (which to me seemed somewhat OTT) on your initial post.
I should explain
(a) that my previous forum experience has been mainly over at PUG - http://usergroup.plus.net/forum/index.php (PlusNet UserGroup forums, ie for all PN-group customers but the forums not run by PlusNet) over the past three years or so
(b) the PUG forums run largely without moderation (the public forums there have always been relatively "civilised" so moderation of any kind has rarely been needed).
So I was somewhat gobsmacked to see your initial innocuous post get a "moderator's note" at all. I was aiming to make some comment to that effect (when the pages eventually loaded), only to discover eventually that all the related posts had completely disappeared. I then assumed that probably the mod had realised they'd over-reacted and asked of yourself and OldJim that all the relevant posts be removed so everyone could start afresh.
Clearly not the case, however ^^ Had rather hoped that the free-and-easy interaction within PUG might have transferred over here - don't have much experience of the previous portal forums but I would hope that now PN have finally opened up a Community Site where everyone from all the vISPs is being encouraged to sign up, there really wouldn't be a need to tell people what they may and may not say.
The public forums of PUG have been open to all customers since the outset, and the almost-3000 people who have signed up there over the last couple of years haven't experienced "modding" of quite this nature. I'd assumed that PN-customers-en-masse would just be an expanded version of how PUG has operated - especially with PN staff now so heavily involved with this Community Site, and seemingly a lot of goodwill all round.
I think maybe today you were just unlucky - not easy to deal with probably, but it might take a few days for things to shake down here with so many people joining "all at once" and the mods are perhaps a little trigger-happy right now
Regards,
Penny.
Hi All,
Indeed, the topic did go off on a tangent, which is why I had to clean up said thread - however, with it being late at night, the brain wasn't working as well as it should have done and forgot to add notes here there and everywhere.
Nobody is being censored in any way whatsoever and it's good to have humour whereever we can do so - I'm guilty of that especially in the PN forum, I do like to have a laugh to lighten the mood of some threads, whilst trying to maintain a modicum of order.
God - please see your PM shortly and all will be revealed - unless of course you're the all seeing and knowing type and know what I will be saying
Indeed, the topic did go off on a tangent, which is why I had to clean up said thread - however, with it being late at night, the brain wasn't working as well as it should have done and forgot to add notes here there and everywhere.
Nobody is being censored in any way whatsoever and it's good to have humour whereever we can do so - I'm guilty of that especially in the PN forum, I do like to have a laugh to lighten the mood of some threads, whilst trying to maintain a modicum of order.
God - please see your PM shortly and all will be revealed - unless of course you're the all seeing and knowing type and know what I will be saying
When I saw the first post I thought it was totally inappropriate. If you want to introduce yourself there is a topic in the General Chit-Chat forum called err... "Introduce Yourself..."
Perhaps this could be made a sticky?
Perhaps this could be made a sticky?
Quote from: rogerloxton
God - please see your PM shortly and all will be revealed - unless of course you're the all seeing and knowing type and know what I will be saying
Indeed, for those who are not all seeing like myself…
The almighty was considered to have ‘Kind of took a liberty really’. But thankfully it appears ‘No warnings have been made or given to anyone on this occasion’. In which case I suppose I will have to reciprocate and (as tempting as it is) not send forth any lightning bolts.
God…
