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"X could be reading this"

[Deleted User] · 2022-01-20 23:43:35

The above comes up as a reason to shut down comment quite often (tho not consistently enough to be a hard rule) in cases of public interest enough to be discussed but where that interest might be considered to lapse into the prurient. Can we have a discussion on this- it really doesn't seem like it holds up tbh. If a…

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21-01-2022 12:43am

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The above comes up as a reason to shut down comment quite often (tho not consistently enough to be a hard rule) in cases of public interest enough to be discussed but where that interest might be considered to lapse into the prurient.
Can we have a discussion on this- it really doesn't seem like it holds up tbh. If a person involved in or related to an incident is on boards.ie reading about it they have presumably taken the decision to do so and it shouldn't really be a consistent mod trait to dictate the lines of the discussion on this theoretical person's behalf in this light?
Good taste is obviously a lovely thing but- aside from being subjective- it's hardly a hard requirement for public message board comment?

Post edited by Spear on March 2022

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