Censorship arrives at My Mountain Town

ScienceChic wrote: Here's where I see the difference, telling someone they suffer from a "derangement syndrome" is different than asking someone if their name is some public figure without qualifying what traits about that public figure the OP meant. We can assume what was inferred, but try not to moderate based on assumptions, and the person to whom it was directed did not report the post themselves so it's possible they took no offense.

It's another one of those fine lines, this time between an absolute insult and an implied one. Again, we encourage people to report these kinds of posts, particularly the member to whom it was directed if they are upset by it, so we can review it more closely. If you want us to get more stringent on moderating, we can certainly do that, but keep that in mind when posts like this one accusing us of "censoring" come up yet again. Every time we've had these discussions on moderating, it usually ends that members prefer more hands off, but as I've always repeated, we take under strong consideration how our members would like this to be run as well and will modify our policy accordingly.

ScienceChic wrote: Here's where I see the difference, telling someone they suffer from a "derangement syndrome" is different than asking someone if their name is some public figure without qualifying what traits about that public figure the OP meant. We can assume what was inferred, but try not to moderate based on assumptions, and the person to whom it was directed did not report the post themselves so it's possible they took no offense.

It's another one of those fine lines, this time between an absolute insult and an implied one. Again, we encourage people to report these kinds of posts, particularly the member to whom it was directed if they are upset by it, so we can review it more closely. If you want us to get more stringent on moderating, we can certainly do that, but keep that in mind when posts like this one accusing us of "censoring" come up yet again. Every time we've had these discussions on moderating, it usually ends that members prefer more hands off, but as I've always repeated, we take under strong consideration how our members would like this to be run as well and will modify our policy accordingly.