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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)(I too always click to see just why a post was hidden from my sensitive innocent eyes...shhhhhh)
And many times I find I side with the hidee. Sometimes a point is made more clear by being pushed by off-color language. Sometimes I can see it was said with forgivable passion to make that point. I have a tolerance for human emotion, even extreme, if I can see the context, especially on an internet forum where the only "weapon" is words.
I agree that posts should still be hidden though, like you say we want the forum to look civil. We live in a polite society. I think this was a great improvement over simply eliminating the post entirely. A good middle ground.
But IMO the admins have gone way overboard if NYC-SKIP was banned for this one word salad innuendo repeated back in response to another poster who used the same terms. It was a mistake, I'm sure he knows that now. Should have been maybe a time-out ban for a few days or a week perhaps at most.