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Originally Posted by Constant
My bad, sorry, however the suppression of free speech and or freedom of speech is always bad.
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Sorry David IIS does not guarantee you your 'Freedom of Speech".
When a person signs up to IIS they agree to abide by the TOS.
The IIS Terms Of Service state clearly what topics to avoid, which includes posts like yours that divert the original thread topic into areas that are expressly outlined in the TOS as topics to avoid.
Unfortunately once a thread goes off-topic in such a way it then becomes problematic and usually gets locked or moved to the moderator's section for further discussion before a final decision is made.
As to "Freedom of Speech on IIS", here is a direct quote by Mike Salway (Iceman) - the owner of this forum.
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Originally Posted by iceman
Unfortunately it's not that simple, or as black and white as that.
For some people, they may want to defend their right to "freedom of speech" all the way to court, and may choose to run a forum that way.
Myself, I do not.
I don't wish to place myself, my house, my family at any risk of exposure to stand up for someone else's 'freedom of speech'. That's why the TOS is there as it is - it means we avoid these discussions and I can sleep at night.
Anyone is welcome to start their own forum or shout from the rooftops if they believe so strongly in it.
I've even seen people do that - start a forum so they can have the "freedom of speech" that was so rudely robbed of them here at IceInSpace (yes, I'm being sarcastic ). Let me tell you how that turned out - they had to introduce rules after a while, too.
Nothing is ever as black and white as you want it to be.
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This is the link to that thread if you'd like to read it for yourself.
https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...77&postcount=6
In that particular thread, the topic was about 'Vendor Bashing' and the question came up about "Freedom of Speech" to which Mike Salway points out that IIS does guarantee members any such thing.
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Originally Posted by DarkArts
Moderator usernames appear in purple in their posts (though this can be configured) and usually have the description "Moderator" below it - if not, hover your mouse over their username and a pop-up box will say "Moderator". Similarly, Administrator names appear in red, etc.
Moderators that I know of are:
- RB (Andrew)
- h0ughy (David)
- sheeny (Al)
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As DarkArts states in his post, these are the moderators on IIS.
And I can assure
raymo that we're not ethereal beings
somewhere out there in the cosmos.
We are online daily, having to give our time to read most of the threads and posts and make desicions based on what Mike Salway wants for his Forum.
We have families, a job and daily lives just like everyone else.
Unfortunately we do not have the luxury to just casually log on to IIS after days, weeks or even months and just skim through the topics, choosing which ones we'd like to give our $0.02c worth.
We're on here daily trying to make IIS pleasant for everyone and finding that some members don't care or appreciate our efforts.
That's fine.
There are many others here that do, and they take the time to message us, encourage us and give us a headsup on threads that may be going into areas that are against the TOS.
So since the topic has been answered (and then some...), I'll leave it there.
RB