.... The vast majority of people who post anywhere--blogs, forums, newsgroups, etc--don't know how to engage in a normal conversation.... I ban about a dozen people a week from my forum for trolling and repetitive ad hominem. Invariably they whine to me via e-mail that I banned them because I didn't like their ideas and it's censorship and blah blah blah...and they keep on even when I show them specifically which rules they break. People have forgotten how to treat others with respect.
I completely agree. I hear the word "censorship" bantered around without much awareness that censorship is used in many daily situations by the very folks who're complaining about it. Those folks censor meals, businesses, people, friends they hang with or don't, words, when to talk/when not to, where to cuss or not, where to go to the bathroom, who to sleep with, what to not do during ones day, and on and on. Censorship is choice. You own a blog? Choose! Choose what the hell people can say and how they behave and the rules they need to abide by. I don't even like the Washington Post, but bravo to them for setting their own rules on their blogs, instead of blindly following some "but blogs don't ever delete anything anyone ever says" rule. Baloney. Choose--I mean censor--how you want to.
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I completely agree. I hear the word "censorship" bantered around without much awareness that censorship is used in many daily situations by the very folks who're complaining about it. Those folks censor meals, businesses, people, friends they hang with or don't, words, when to talk/when not to, where to cuss or not, where to go to the bathroom, who to sleep with, what to not do during ones day, and on and on. Censorship is choice. You own a blog? Choose! Choose what the hell people can say and how they behave and the rules they need to abide by. I don't even like the Washington Post, but bravo to them for setting their own rules on their blogs, instead of blindly following some "but blogs don't ever delete anything anyone ever says" rule. Baloney. Choose--I mean censor--how you want to.