An update (?) of the Hot Deals forum rules were just posted link
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<< No thread crapping. If the subject matter of deal does not interest you, do not post negative comments about it, or about other members, in the thread.No thread crapping.
Possibly the worst examples we have had of this have been in posts for free religious items, such as bibles, etc. If you want to discuss religion, or any other such non-computer topic, do it in our Off Topic forum. The discussions in that forum cover a wide range of topics, but needless flaming and rude, mean-spirited posts are not welcome there, either.
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recently the mods have taken to locking (or even all out deleting!) any hot deals with a religous angle, including one I think of the very example above, a free bible. Now, I am just confused, or doesn't the fact that the forums rules themselves use an example of a free bible hot deal post to talk about discourteous REPLIES to hot deal posts, doesn't it implicitly define a free bible post as a VALID got deal?
I personally don't really care about these religious hot deals, I don't post them nor do I think I am likely to pursue them. But call me a ACLU sympathizer, I don't like to see what I consider as censorship -- or at the VERY LEAST, if there is going to be censorship, I would like it to at least be in the open, and that censorship to be CONSISTENT with the stated policies of the censors!
In this post was written:
<< No thread crapping. If the subject matter of deal does not interest you, do not post negative comments about it, or about other members, in the thread.No thread crapping.
Possibly the worst examples we have had of this have been in posts for free religious items, such as bibles, etc. If you want to discuss religion, or any other such non-computer topic, do it in our Off Topic forum. The discussions in that forum cover a wide range of topics, but needless flaming and rude, mean-spirited posts are not welcome there, either.
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recently the mods have taken to locking (or even all out deleting!) any hot deals with a religous angle, including one I think of the very example above, a free bible. Now, I am just confused, or doesn't the fact that the forums rules themselves use an example of a free bible hot deal post to talk about discourteous REPLIES to hot deal posts, doesn't it implicitly define a free bible post as a VALID got deal?
I personally don't really care about these religious hot deals, I don't post them nor do I think I am likely to pursue them. But call me a ACLU sympathizer, I don't like to see what I consider as censorship -- or at the VERY LEAST, if there is going to be censorship, I would like it to at least be in the open, and that censorship to be CONSISTENT with the stated policies of the censors!
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