[thelist] Angora socks comment on DJC article

[Daniel J. Cody]

Addressing a few things here.

Scott_Brady at themoneystore.com wrote:

> 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

You're right - it wasn't obscene. But it was pretty 'off the wall' and
pointless.adrians comment that proceded it summed it up perfectly. If
someone decides to post an irrelevant comment to an aritcle by pedrito
that said something like, "Formatting is kewl. I remember the first time
i got 'formatted' at this frat party back in '97.. SIGMA EP
RULEZ!!!@!!!" I'd almost certainly wonder if that belonged on thesite.
Its a fine line that everyone here has input on, which is why I asked
what you're thoughts were. No one will ever censor stuff that gets
posted to evolt in the strict sense. If shit gets posted, like some of
the stuff that gets posted to slashdot.org though, thats a shame and I
don't think(just my opinion here) it belongs. The last thing we need on
evolt is a natalie portman thread...

> 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.

well, that just won't happen. If you want more details/re-assurance, let
me know and I'll give you a 5 page email on why :)

Ron White wrote:

> No email and appears to have created an account just to make the "colorful"
> comment then checked back the next day to see if it was still there... Why
> does that not surprise me?

Exactly. Obviously this person had no interest in contributing anything
except this off the wall remark if they didnt leave an email.

I thought it should stay as well, but I'm not the decision maker here(no
matter what some may think). Everyone here is, and thats who makes the
final decision.. This is getting into those muddy waters of whats
right/wrong, good/evil, "i cant believe its not butter"/margarine etc..
So if anyone has thoughts or input on this, share it :)

.djc.