[tpaine]

Yep, the last little dust up seemed to have curbed the censorship of threads, and for the last few weeks, seems to have helped in a less arbitrary policy on post removals. - Now, I'm beginning to see selective enforcement of what constitutes 'personal abuse' once again. Thus my previous post:

You forget that prior to leaving in a huff, the coven were playing their power games with the benign approval of the FR-PTB. -- To my mind, much the same game is being played now, and some of the present authoritarian crowd may even be the same players.

I wish someone would/could say it isn't so, with a explanation of why it sure looks that way. Instead of mind-numbing 'love it or leave' suggestions. - #51

[dirtboy]

Now, I'm beginning to see selective enforcement of what constitutes 'personal abuse' once again.

Well, first of all, if someone mashes the abuse button, the moderators do not get information about who sent the abuse, which was done intentionally to minimize any personal preferences coming into play. Second, the moderators can't patrol all the threads, so if there is flaming going on and no one tells them, they may not see it. And third, there is still a degree of individual judgement on the part of the moderators, so what is acceptable to one may constitute abuse to another when the flaming is right on the line of acceptable insults. But there has been a concerted effort to apply less moderation to FR over recent weeks.