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Originally Posted by Souss  Does being FPM's official forum give you the right to censor? Yellow journalism and propaganda is practiced by both sides, see for example the thread about the objectivity of OTV's opening statements. But in any case, the threads that I saw deleted did not have any yellow journalism (or any journalism for that matter) or propaganda. As for preventive deletion, it seems you are creating a Bush Doctrine for online forums :P
If you want to attract serious, creative members, and have them be active participants, give them the freedom to say what's on their minds. Many of them have busy lives and don't have time to waste. They will not have much patience for thought control. |
First of all, I apologize for any hasty action I may have taken, but the thing is not about not answering your concerns as much as it is not drifting the thread. I didn’t want to get involved in the political decisions made behind the forum but rather stick to some technical moderation policies, as the first one, neither me and much less you have a say about it. This policy is here to stay no matter if it would cost us some members; which by the way make you wonder the added value of some members when their sole participation is in these auto-flagellation threads when they are not related anyhow to FPM and even if they are, there is no ‘official’ members to reply them back.
When you joined the forum, you agreed to a set rules which are only an interface for something bigger which is promoting and protecting FPM's interests. You may consider it censorship; I would rather call it gatekeeping. Difference is huge. Gatekeeping is practiced in every media outlet. Nothing forbids to you to have your own blog if you want to talk about some topics or to get any other information you may lack elsewhere. You make it sound as if this forum is extremely repressive which isn’t the case as your whole concern is about a single thread that got deleted 4 months ago; well let’s give you a reason why it got deleted. You see there is a notice made sticky since June 2008.
http://forum.tayyar.org/f8/2009-parl...portant-34862/
The thread in question was published next day by some yellow journalists under the label “massadir 3aouniyeh”. Sorry, notwithstanding it may unplease some members, but this type of threads doesn’t help much on a public forum. We won’t give our opponents extra reasons to attack us. That’s only a part of the reason because you could add to that how the thread was getting emotional and people attacking each other personally which is a major one too.
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Is this forum a place for openly discussing ideas, or is it a propaganda tool for the FPM? Over the years the forum has oscillated between both, with sadly a clear tilt towards the latter in more recent times.
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Thanks for stating the obvious. You answer your own reply.
N.B. : I won't answer any furthr reply on this subject. I already said more then what's needed.