> MrSinatra wrote: > spam, flaming, profanity are separate issues, narrowly defined...
There's the rub. What you infer to be so easily defined may not be so clear to another free speech advocate. What looks like a flame to you may well be a central, heartfelt issue for someone else. (Think of the scene where the in-laws meet in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding.") The only opinion that really counts around here is that of the forum's owners. It can certainly be a challenge for them to decide where the line is drawn but it is their call and no one else's. Sadly, what is often forgotten by the speech-with-no-barrier advocates is that there is no shortage of people who will, knowingly or not, test any situation to see just how far they can push things. This is basically a help forum for a company's specific product. I would expect their tolerance for abuse to be substantially lower than an open political forum, for example. The reality is that constitutional issues are moot in a privately run forum and I have no problem with that. At such point that this or any other forum ceases to be useful to me, I have the option to go elsewhere or even start my own venue. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43308 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
