[thelist] Angora socks comment on DJC article

[Martin]

Scott_Brady at themoneystore.com wrote on 2/8/00 4:47 pm

>More importantly, this starts evolt down the road of censorship.  Nothing in
>those comments were actually obscene.  Suggestive, yes.  Obscene, no.  What's
>next? Do we need to start censoring all the posts?  Who decides when 
>something
>is inappropriate?  After we start censoring posts, do we then start making
>claims that all posts are the property of evolt.org and evolt.org reserves 
>the
>right to use all submissions to thesite in any way they see fit?  Wouldn't 
>that
>be ironic, considering how evolt got its start.
>
>I think if people don't like the comments, then they can choose to ignore 
>that
>person's posts in the future.  I think if there was something patently 
>offensive
>in these comments (personal attacks, truly obscene language, etc.), then 
>we can
>consider removing articles or bleeping out the words.
+1 on all this.

I think we do need some ToS to cover stuff like this (like you need a
valid email address etc), but a move towards community moderation
may be A Good Thing.

Models include /. of course, but also Motley Fool.

Cheers
Martin

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