Some Chick wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]There is no reason to allow someone to troll starting a hate thread about Muslims, Hispanics, Chinese or ANYONE. [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]<snip>
[/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]But seriously, when someone is posting that another person, one whom they have never met, is a slut, or a lesbian... That SHOULD be deleted. And if the same person is posting the same woman hater post (copied and pasted) it should be deleted.[/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]If someone is posting to troll for a racial argument, that SHOULD be deleted.[/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"]If there are photos of porn or gore, specifically human gore, DELETE![/div]
Why? I'm not saying that I like those things, but how can you say that no one can ever post such things. It's not your forum. I'm not at all down with this "hate speech" stuff, where people are trying to muffle any opinions anywhere they find objectionable. Key word there is anywhere. If you don't want it in your home, good for you. But when it comes to what people create on their own time in their own space, you don't have the right to go into their space and tell them how to think or not think. One of the best reasons why is because it will not change the way they think. It will however, piss them off, and give them more reason to hate you and those others that they hate anyway. The best way to deal with unpleasant speech is with more speech, not less.
Trying to remove hate, or other things you find unpleasant in the human condition from the internet is like trying to remove salt from the ocean. If you don't like what you see on an internet forum, then do what you have done: leave it. There are thousands out there to choose from. I just do not think you or I have the right to tell DV what they can and cannot have up on their forum. And except for those things which are in themselves criminal by their existence (child pornography, incitement to a specific criminal act -- e.g. "go to X place and burn it down"), I don't think the government should be in the thought police business either.
[/div][div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"]Oh, and they need to define a set of Rules of Conduct. Break the rules and you're gone.
That's what you say. But again, what right do you have to dictate the rules (such as they are) of their forum to them? Here on DS we have clear rules that we agree to when you register. Your comment is completely valid here. But where a forum does not have -- or obviously does not want to have -- a code of conduct, then again, your best choice and your only right is to vote with your feet. You have no right to impose your visions or views on anyone else at their forum (at least not more than anyone else who posts there), and they're not making you read their nonsense.
[span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"]I have approached another Vancouver organization to set up forums. I should know something soon.[/span]
That is how to deal with it. Just be aware that DV risks getting hit by competition from the other side as well; that is, by a forum that registers users who agree that they are over 18 and are entering a free for all where anything goes, including the kind of ideas and words you find offensive. Let a hundred flowers bloom; some will be pretty and sweet, and some will be nasty old weeds.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but rather than complain about what you don't want to see, why not create something you do want to see instead. You know, light the candle instead of cursing the darkness?
