I Still want a Moderated GB

[Sean]

We had that. It was called Lint. It was like the enlightened liberal democracy of forums. And like every enlightened liberal democracy, it eventually depopulated itself.

*sigh*

L.O. Fucking L.

 

[Never]

Just because there's buckets there doesn't mean you have to drink it all. You can spoon out a select bit, or fill a glass, or just walk away.

That would work if speech existed in discrete little buckets that you only have to interact with when you feel like it. It's more apt to say that it's raining outside and if you want to avoid speech, your only option is to stay in your house all day, every day.

For example:

My opinion is that removing the "n-word" from our vocabulary would not magically eradicate racism from society. Words are expressions of viewpoints.

Allowing people to use hateful/bigotted/anti-social words brings these ideas out into the open, where they can be discussed and disputed and challenged and ridiculed and eventually rejected.

This creates an awesome environment for people who want to call others niggers and an okay environment for people who want to debate the use of the term nigger, but a shitty environment for people who’d like others to stop calling them a nigger.

It’s a social dynamic where those who already have it most difficult just have to deal with more of other people’s crap.

What's the difference between a hypothetical moderated GB and what we have already in the Playground?

As far as I can tell, the vast majority of the threads on the Playground wouldn't pass muster.

 

[thør]

We don't need no stinking badges .

We???

Got a mouse in your pocket?

 

[domroger]

We???

Got a mouse in your pocket?

Yes ,it's to feed the trouser snake .


Just a quote from Blazing Saddles .

 

[toubab]

I've come to realize the fact the GB is virtually unmoderated is the sole reason I find the place so interesting, and so addictive. It would make no sense at all to make it inoffensive. It would destroy it.

 

[richard_daily]

Threads like this make me want to go and pee in the playground.

If you don't like the way the GB is, you are free to leave.

 

[Garnate]

I thought this was a joke thread.

 

[bronzeage]

I thought this was a joke thread.

There's another kind?

 

[unregistered]

 

[toubab]

I thought this was a joke thread.

It is, but there are a lot of people who actually would like a moderated GB.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Garnate]

It is, but there are a lot of people who actually would like a moderated GB.

*Shudder*

 

[Noor]

It is, but there are a lot of people who actually would like a moderated GB.

We need a poll!

 

[Noor]

A moderated GB. For or against?

Forgot the poll, ignore pls. I have gone all Q I guess

 

[toubab]

Forgot the poll, ignore pls. I have gone all Q I guess

Rats. I thought there would finally be a poll where I could vote with conviction.

 

[Noor]

Rats. I thought there would finally be a poll where I could vote with conviction.

I made the poll, vote away!

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1150003

 

[neci]

Never, in all seriousness, have you ever thought about moving to portland or moscow?

 

[Noor]

Never, in all seriousness, have you ever thought about moving to portland or moscow?

It's not for me, I know but...
We were thinking of Portland but not sure we could handle it. Moscow never in a million years.

Hi Neci, feeling better?

 

[neci]

It's not for me, I know but...
We were thinking of Portland but not sure we could handle it. Moscow never in a million years.

Hi Neci, feeling better?

so much better.

i don't think i could do either. moscow, because i'd end up in some siberian jail and portland, because they scare me.

 

[QueenLevitra]

See, that's the thing, though. Everyone seems to think that Free Speech means people should only be allowed to say things that don't offend other people. But that's not what it means at all.

"I'm all for Free Speech, but..." means you are not Free Speech. You believe speech should be censored in a certain way. Which is fine - that is your opinion, and you have a right to that opinion - but you logically can't claim to be pro-Free Speech and also pro-censorship.

My opinion is that removing the "n-word" from our vocabulary would not magically eradicate racism from society. Words are expressions of viewpoints.

Allowing people to use hateful/bigotted/anti-social words brings these ideas out into the open, where they can be discussed and disputed and challenged and ridiculed and eventually rejected.

Censoring "hate speech" doesn't rid the world of bigotry - it only drives it underground, where it can fester.

There is no better disinfectant than sunlight.

If reading certain things annoy you, you have the ability to put the author of those things on Ignore. But realize that closing your eyes to those things does not make them not-exist.

Of course, that's just one muckity-muck's opinion. You are welcome to disagree.

+1

Additionally, this needs sticking.

 

[evesdream]

I guess I was hallucinating when I thought this was discussed in 6 different threads going on 50+ pages just a few weeks ago.

 

[yossi]

I guess I was hallucinating when I thought this was discussed in 6 different threads going on 50+ pages just a few weeks ago.

Beating a completely decomposed horse is an honorable GB tradition.

 

[Garnate]

Beating a completely decomposed horse is an honorable GB tradition.

It's the only thing that brings me joy.

 

[Noor]

It's the only thing that brings me joy.

and it gave me a chance to tease you

 

[Garnate]

and it gave me a chance to tease you

Those chances come often! That's what she said.

I practically hand you guys fodder daily.