Don't forget that if Yahoo can be triggered into shutting down FFL for violations of Yahoo's rules, then those rules probably include shutting FFL down if there's any chance that Yahoo will become involved in a lawsuit or be accused of criminality.
Case in point: Ravi's statements might actually constitute libel and if FFL egregiously allows that to continue after FFL's been repeatedly warned that it is doing so, then both Ravi, FFL's moderators and Yahoo could all be named parties in at least a civil dispute. You guys got $50,000 to pay lawyers to defend yourselves? I would think that Curtis has given just such a warning to FFL even if he's such a nice guy that he'd merely leave FFL instead of starting a lawsuit. Not that I'm saying any such action would have much legal traction, but we must note that Yahoo will cut off FFL at the very first sign that Yahoo might have to pay a lawyer dime one. It simply will not care in the least about us here. Therefore: just as anyone here has the possible power to shut down FFL by anonymously flooding it with porn and then complaining to Yahoo about it as "a concerned citizen," so too can Curtis give a simple "heads up email" to Yahoo that he might be suing it for yada yada, and BAM all our posts are probably forever inaccessible or out-rightly erased. Therefore I say: Ravi is the cause of this risk -- not Rick's largess or that Curtis is somehow so wrong that Ravi is forced by integrity to besmirch Curtis by possibly slandering him. And, hey, Ravi: There's war mongers here and you're worried about Curtis wanting sex? Get the fuck real. And failing Ravi's agreement to rein in his accusations, then I think the onus DOES then go to Rick, and in all love, I warn Rick that this scenario could go south and ugly in a nanosecond and that it is not merely his Yahoo group at stake, but it is a community's worth of wisdom and struggle that might be lost to the world because of the actions of a single "outrageously indifferent to the civilities of the group" poster. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > Yep, I should hope the FFL moderators would enforce the highest > > levels of civility here. > > You can hope until you're blue in the face, but until Rick decides he no > longer wants FFL to be an almost anything goes free-speech zone, you're > likely to remain disappointed. I suggest people simply filter out those > participants they find disagreeable. >
