Originally posted by BillyBong:
Threads with decent topics have a HIGH tendency to deviate to other
discussions unrelated to the thread itself.
Isn't that an indication of how
certain subject attract differing views and opinons over different
times ?
I myself frequent other forums like Delphiforums and no such
sanitised modeation exist. In fact, the matter of how "decent" a
formite shows will automatically be censored, banned or even
ignored totally by others if perpertrator repeated similar
behaviour. Like I said, that is the very essence of a free public
forum on the internet.
The worry is whether this 'disease' will proliferate if the
moderators don't streamline similar topics.
In biological terms, "diease"
actually is a healthy sign of "diversity" and hence the ability to
survive in ever changing conditions of its valid existence. That
anology applies to ANY human ideology, arguments or opinons as
expressed in any fashion, including a forum itself. And if a
moderator isn't capable of handling all these "dieases", than isn't
that a manifastation of a weak immunity and tolerance to existing
differing views and except the diversity of diease ?
Mind you it's not about policing breakaway factions who love to
spam differing views but simply to avoid repetitions.
No. This is the role of forumite
to decide what is a spam or repetitions, not
moderator's.
Too much of the same food is never good, so the line must be
drawn. Let the mods decide when to draw that line. Of course, like
others have candidly pointed out, too much mopping up stifles
productive discussion. Again, leave it to the mods to decide. So
far the SC forum remains conducive and intellectual.
IMO, this forum has crossed the line of free speak (SPEAKER's
Corner, remember ?). It has become so overly moderated that is
hardly a place for intellectual or conducive even for a simple
deviation of subject.
