I've had two inoffensive posts deleted in two days. Someone here seems to have some kind of seriously puritanical axe to grind. At this rate it's going to become manditory to punctuate every sentence with a smilie. David was always much more liberal, more fair more impartial, more objective and much slower to delete or discontinue a thread. If someone doesn't agree with something I said, then by all means offer a counterpoint. This is an arts-related forum for musicial artists. Nothing is more deadening to the artistic community than narrow-minded censorship by anonymous, faceless entities - who are unnacountable for their actions. Anytime David ever killed a post or deleted a thread - it was clear and obvious why. I challenge the person who deleted my posts to put them back and tell us why they chose to deleted them in such an off-hand manner.

Right-wing conservatism and PC-ism is seeping into this forum and it's really revolting. One of the moderators here is clearly an autocrat with an itchy mouse finger. Whoever you are - you need to look up Moderator and Censor in the dictionary. They are not one and the same.
Keshav

Keshav wrote:

I've had two inoffensive posts deleted in two days. Someone here seems to have some kind of seriously puritanical axe to grind. At this rate it's going to become manditory to punctuate every sentence with a smilie. David was always much more liberal, more fair more impartial, more objective and much slower to delete or discontinue a thread. If someone doesn't agree with something I said, then by all means offer a counterpoint. This is an arts-related forum for musicial artists. Nothing is more deadening to the artistic community than narrow-minded censorship by anonymous, faceless entities - who are unnacountable for their actions. Anytime David ever killed a post or deleted a thread - it was clear and obvious why. I challenge the person who deleted my posts to put them back and tell us why they chose to deleted them in such an off-hand manner.

Right-wing conservatism and PC-ism is seeping into this forum and it's really revolting. One of the moderators here is clearly an autocrat with an itchy mouse finger. Whoever you are - you need to look up Moderator and Censor in the dictionary. They are not one and the same.
Keshav

Just to clarify, Right wing conservative has not to do with PC-ism. In fact I would say that PC censorship comes from the left. As someone that is a libertarian/conservative....I find the charge pretty foolish that this 'evil' righ wing conservatism is an issue on this board. Maybe you should ask David directly instead of hinting at some grand conspiracy. By the way, I have no problem w/ how intense, ugly or non PC the threads are here....And that comes from a registered Republican (GASP!)

That too bad, Keshav. For my part, the only things I delete, and as I had actually understood it, the only things the mods should be deleting are spam (usually sexual) posts. I average anywhere from 2-9 a day of these daily.

And Rex? Would love to have seen that middle C explosion theory. Any chance of reposting it?

Your concerns are understandable and they have been duly noted. Presently there is one Administrator and four Moderators. That means that there might be five different ideas as to what to do with off-topic posts, and five different people who can delete a post without it being able to be retrieved.

If you think that there really needs to be a new forum, then let me know. I will consider it.

Other than that, if you want to be sure that a post is not deleted, then make sure that it is posted in the correct forum. The only way that I can see an on-topic post being deleted is if it becomes a flame war.

Peace

David Courtney