any official message board MUST be moderated. Censorship is bad, as long as its the opinions you censor, if its the language its fine. People should be allowed to have their opinion, but they must express it in a civil manner.
So i wote for moderation.
Sincerly Tobias Ussing
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:59, rené Tournois betov@free.fr@postfix4-2.free.fr wrote:
At 08:43 23/02/2004 +0100, you wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:41:23PM -0800, Wierd Wierd wrote:
I was cruising the forums a little bit ago, and came across some rather unpleasant postings by some of our users. It would be in our best interests to clean them up promptly, as their disrespect to people with honest questions reflects poorly on our developers, and the project as a whole.
There may be more, but I found the derogatory postings in the 'Please...' thread, and the "Blue screen of death" thread.
I hope this is an isolated incident, but if it keeps up, we may have to have a dedicated forum moderator to keep things civil in there. Some people just dont know how to be nice to each other.
Then you'll get endless debates over where moderators should draw the line. Personally i don't like censorship, and i think only exceptionally disrupting postings (like the one concerning Betov, and the one which links to the source code) should be removed. It might however be better if we'd require a login...
Though on my own RosAsm Board, i am in favour of a "zero sensorship" rule, for a Board like ReactOS one, keeping completely free from war threads is a must. There is no limit to what the Anti-Gpl guys are able to do.
Also, forcing to registration would be much more frustrating, IMHO, than deleting offending and WW3 threads.
Betov.
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