thebluetrain said:LOL, would'nt that shoot the turds out of the toilet? 🙄
Hmmm... I cant comment lest I offend. But the obvious joke...
Interesting article on Slate.com about forums and censorship.
I can't pretend that Slate has all the answers when it comes to managing message areas, but our "Fray" message board does a good job of encouraging spirited discussion without engaging in heavy censorship. Fray Editor Kevin Arnovitz tries to elevate the dialogue by encouraging posters to compete for higher ground, awarding "checks" to posts he judges good and "stars" to posters who earn a slew of checks. Want to see only the messages Arnovitz has given checks? Click and it's done. What to block specific users who regularly offend you? A click sends them into oblivion, too. Admire an individual post and want to read more by the writer? Click for his back pages. Reading the Fray with the filters off can be like walking the streets of a vital, chatty city that happens to have open sewers. But all you need do to clear the air of 99 percent of the stink is click a button.
Arnovitz deletes messages by posters whose use of the seven dirty words—made famous in the George Carlin case—is gratuitous to an extreme. Personal threats, general vileness, and libel are shown the door, too, but strong language in support of an argument is considered no vice in the Fray.