At the start or the end of the day moderation is censorship.
Sure Mods are good for getting rid of silly stuff like pron or the like and they do their job well.
I'm a member on ableton (music software site) and they take that stance heavily and it works mostly, freedom of speech etc.
Quote:
Dear all,
Following are a few words which are supposed to help us all when using the
Ableton forum and making it as pleasant as possible.
There is so much (partially overlapping, partially also contrary)
information on the so-called Netiquette available on the Internet that
at this point, we would like to only refer to some resources. For those who would
like to know some more detail on the world of
netiquette might want to start with this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette
Here, we would rather like to emphasize the 'social' part of the so- called
Netiquette.
Please try to always remember that there are also humans on the other end of
the 'line'.
This is why you might want to not be using too much slang-vocabulary as
the forum-community includes people from a lot of different countries and
slang can often be either not understood at all or misinterpreted.
Just the same, especially new members of the forum require help and
respectively a friendly and co-operative behavior. Therefore we would like
you to be friendly, helpful and respectful.
Please also consider that a lot of minors visit this place and therefore sexually
explicit content should be avoided, too.
This means that each forum-user can contribute to the forum being found to
be a pleasant place by giving a good example him- or herself. Because
somebody who is treated in a friendly manner is probably much rather willing
and motivated to treat others friendly as well.
In this forum we trust in the ability of the
Ableton-community to manage the forum themselves.
We don't intend to introduce any kind of censorship, you're free to express
your opinion - but please try to do so in a decent manner.
In extreme cases of offensive language, sexually explicit content, personal fights etc.
we may ask you to restate what you want to express without violating this code of behavior.
Please cooperate if you get such a request from us as we hate the idea of having to
exclude people from this forum against their will.
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Well it works in the context of a music site, sure there are some right silly arguments and un-human stuff there, but people have that right in that context just like people should have their right to say what they think here.
And regarding the thread I must say I don't visit enough to notice missing threads LOL
All the best!