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censorship - why??

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  • 16-10-2007 11:53pm
    #1
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    if somebody has something interesting to say, people will respond.

    if people find a persons posts boring or irrelevant, the thread in question will probably just die rapidly.

    but why enforce a form of crude censorship where others can decide when a thread is good or bad and close it if they deem fit?

    check here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055165828

    a bulletin board which i visit on a regular basis has been down for 48 hours. i am curious as to why this has happened. is it technical? desired (for upgrade) or undesired (crash)? or possibly legal (has somebody said/done something which they shouldn't have)?

    i ask a question here and the thread is closed, locked, shut down, call it what you will.

    is this kind of reflex, jack-boot contraint of information common around here?
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    #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yes, it was a stupid thread. and an awful first post.

    die.


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    #3
    gandalf
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    Why should we give airtime to a rival board?


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    #4
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Mordeth wrote: »
    yes, it was a stupid thread. and an awful first post.

    die.

    this was my first post:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=578891#post578891

    sorry you didn't like it.


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    That forum wasn't the place for the question.
    You got an answer, then things started to go down... or was that up :/

    Anyway, wrong forum. Mod locked it. No problem.

    Move along.


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    #6
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    gandalf wrote: »
    Why should we give airtime to a rival board?

    so.... the only thing you can discuss here is things which happen.........here? are other forms, means, places of communication all to be blacklisted, banned and blotted out of our media?

    sounds like catholic ireland in the 50's.


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    #7
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Yes. Why the censorship.

    doyler posts a non-sequitor. Applying the sort of reasoning one needs to use to solve crypic crosswords shows this to be a question which has no relevance to the forum he posts it in (Tech > Computers > Computers & Technology is traditionally for threads about Computers & Technology).

    The only logical reason to do this is because if this were to continue unabated it would be impossible for people to use this site to communicate with each other.

    doyler is trying to censor us. Why?


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    #8
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Rabies wrote: »
    Mod locked it. No problem.

    censorship of thoughts, ideas or comments which do not offend and have no desire to offend is ALWAYS a problem.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    well I didn't like it, if you spend 12 hours a week studying where in the hell are you going to find time for drinking and television?


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    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Talliesin wrote: »
    Yes. Why the censorship.

    doyler posts a non-sequitor. Applying the sort of reasoning one needs to use to solve crypic crosswords shows this to be a question which has no relevance to the forum he posts it in (Tech > Computers > Computers & Technology is traditionally for threads about Computers & Technology).

    The only logical reason to do this is because if this were to continue unabated it would be impossible for people to use this site to communicate with each other.

    doyler is trying to censor us. Why?

    now, THAT needs explaining!


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    godgivenright.jpg


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    #12
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    The_Worst_Part_of_Censorship.jpg


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    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Rabies wrote: »
    The_Worst_Part_of_Censorship.jpg

    old, but good!!!!


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    #14
    Hagar
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    There's a world of difference between someone censoring what we see and us not wanting to see it in the first place.


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    Time Magazine
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    Anyone know why the Aston Villa site hasn't been updated in a few hours?


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    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Hagar wrote: »
    There's a world of difference between someone censoring what we see and us not wanting to see it in the first place.

    exactly. if nobody around here knows about my query or gives a toss whether the site in question lives or dies, then the thread will die a natural (and probably rapid!) death. and in that case enforced censorship is not needed or required.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    the thread will die a natural death?

    you've clearly never posted on boards before.


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    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Mordeth wrote: »
    the thread will die a natural death?

    you've clearly never posted on boards before.

    my first post here was 10/9/02!!!!!!


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    Rabies
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    Ibid wrote: »
    Anyone know why the Aston Villa site hasn't been updated in a few hours?

    No, sorry.

    Maybe you can help me. I'm looking for some feedback. Does my ass look big in these jeans?


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    Ihope you're paying attention doyler..


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    #21
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Mordeth wrote: »
    Ihope you're paying attention doyler..

    trying to, but i've just got distracted by a request for information about leather bras.

    is mary harney a regular poster here?


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    #22
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    doyler wrote: »
    now, THAT needs explaining!
    I will try to do so slowly, and with small words.

    Your post was not about computers and technology clever boxes. It also didn't make any sense.

    People are trying to use that forum to talk about clever boxes.

    If there were lots and lots of posts like yours then it would be impossible very hard to find the posts which were about clever boxes.

    This would mean that people couldn't talk about the clever boxes. This would make the people who own this site sad, because they want to let people talk about the clever boxes.

    The people who own this site are trying to let people talk about clever boxes (and other things in other places). We call people who let people talk about things (whether themselves or other people) "publishers".

    Sorry about the big word there, but there's another one coming up. When someone prevents publishers from publishing what they want, this is called "censorship".


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    #23
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    :D

    I like this one.


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    #24
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Talliesin wrote: »
    I will try to do so slowly, and with small words.

    Your post was not about computers and technology clever boxes. It also didn't make any sense.

    People are trying to use that forum to talk about clever boxes.

    If there were lots and lots of posts like yours then it would be impossible very hard to find the posts which were about clever boxes.

    This would mean that people couldn't talk about the clever boxes. This would make the people who own this site sad, because they want to let people talk about the clever boxes.

    The people who own this site are trying to let people talk about clever boxes (and other things in other places). We call people who let people talk about things (whether themselves or other people) "publishers".

    Sorry about the big word there, but there's another one coming up. When someone prevents publishers from publishing what they want, this is called "censorship".

    ah!!

    not so much the comment, but where it was made!!

    like farting in church!

    i get it now!!

    sorry!


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    #25
    Agamemnon
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    Ibid wrote: »
    Anyone know why the Aston Villa site hasn't been updated in a few hours?

    Because Villa are crap.


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    #26
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    That's libel. And against the Equality Act.


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    #27
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Ibid wrote: »
    That's libel. And against the Equality Act.

    no.

    they are crap.


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    #28
    WhiteWashMan
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    Ibid wrote: »
    That's libel. And against the Equality Act.

    its only libel if its proved as not true :)


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
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    doyler wrote: »
    my first post here was 10/9/02!!!!!!

    9 posts on 17/10/07

    6 posts on 16/10/07

    3 posts on 15/10/07

    1 post on 26/10/03

    1 posts on 10/09/02

    you're not exactly a regular in all fairness.


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    #30
    doyler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭doyler


    Papa Smut wrote: »
    9 posts on 17/10/07

    6 posts on 16/10/07

    3 posts on 15/10/07

    1 post on 26/10/03

    1 posts on 10/09/02

    you're not exactly a regular in all fairness.

    true, but my posts are worth the wait!!


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    #31
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Another poxy censorship thread! :rolleyes:


    Oh, wait, I see this one's different: censorship - why??
    Nothing to see here. Censored. :D


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