Eric, I don't believe in censorship. But if I did, that one would go. I'm glad BC is your site, and not mine.
Brian Flemming, if you read this, your post (it's number 18), which precipitated the censored response, was brilliant. A belated well done to you, and thanks.
Oh, yes, comment #18 was BRILLIANT. Only a genius with Deep Insight could just spout made up hysterical nonsense, then accuse a musician of being a slobbering homicidal maniac on the basis of his own malicious fantasies. What an amazing display of creative insight!
I like the fact that Blogcritics doesn't have one (or more) heavy handed moderator(s) imposing his/her/their editorial will on the content because IMO it would ruin the atmosphere. In fact, with the exceptions of spam, minor content editing (removing weird characters for example) and illegal stuff of course, I don't see any value in changing anything posted to this website.
Especially people who rarely have anything positive to say (like the Resident Troll) deserve the opportunity to speak freely without censoring.
Censorship is acceptable and welcomed in the vein of keeping a site children-friendly, but I believe the average age of this site is adult, so I see no purpose for that here.
BTW, if Phillip is around and on a technical note I have a suggestion to prevent visitors to the homepage from occasionally seeing stuff like this:
Warning: opendir(/home/eolsen/public_html/archives/2003/11/-1/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/eolsen/public_html/includes/art.php on line 5
I believe one of BC's most attractive features is that there is no padding and no patterns. When I joined I wasn't asked to stick to a certain topic and/or political correctness. I think that’s great.
Even when opinions are opposing they still need to be heard despite their troll-ish connotations.
Expression is a divine right to all; the restrictions lie in the mediums we choose as outlets for those expressions. BC works because it does not condense posts to suit an agenda. The only agenda is in the diversity of the uncensored posts themselves. Now that’s what I call ‘fair and balanced’.
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Eric Olsen
Nov 03, 2003 at 8:09 am
thanks TD and Dew, I agree entirely with your thoughts on why the site works: it truly is an open forum and a marketplace of ideas.
I'm glad the site is censor-free, but I would like to see put to an end a particular grammar-nazi's insulting, demeaning put-downs to writers that this person deems "unworthy." This is pointless, unproductive, and, in the end, anti-productive because it will turn some less-skilled (but more than thoughtful enough) writers away. There is absolutely no place for that kind of ridiculous crap on this site. No one has a right to do that kind of thing and I think something needs to be done about it. I know I'm tired of seeing it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anyone else who feels the same way should speak now.
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26 - mike
Kurt Cobain: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not having you."
27 - Al Barger
CLICK HERE to read the only post ever censored by Eric Olsen at Blogcritics referred to with careful vagueness in this post.
TOO HOT FOR BLOGCRITICS!!!
The post that dare not speak it's name!
What evil villain would write such an unmentionable diatribe? Could it be... SATAN???
We report, YOU decide.
28 - Natalie Davis
Eric, I don't believe in censorship. But if I did, that one would go. I'm glad BC is your site, and not mine.
Brian Flemming, if you read this, your post (it's number 18), which precipitated the censored response, was brilliant. A belated well done to you, and thanks.
29 - Al Barger
Oh, yes, comment #18 was BRILLIANT. Only a genius with Deep Insight could just spout made up hysterical nonsense, then accuse a musician of being a slobbering homicidal maniac on the basis of his own malicious fantasies. What an amazing display of creative insight!
30 - TDavid
I like the fact that Blogcritics doesn't have one (or more) heavy handed moderator(s) imposing his/her/their editorial will on the content because IMO it would ruin the atmosphere. In fact, with the exceptions of spam, minor content editing (removing weird characters for example) and illegal stuff of course, I don't see any value in changing anything posted to this website.
Especially people who rarely have anything positive to say (like the Resident Troll) deserve the opportunity to speak freely without censoring.
Censorship is acceptable and welcomed in the vein of keeping a site children-friendly, but I believe the average age of this site is adult, so I see no purpose for that here.
BTW, if Phillip is around and on a technical note I have a suggestion to prevent visitors to the homepage from occasionally seeing stuff like this:
Warning: opendir(/home/eolsen/public_html/archives/2003/11/-1/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/eolsen/public_html/includes/art.php on line 5
Add a file_exists call like this first:
if(@file_exists($path)) {
// include the album art
} else {
// get some other album art, display an advertisement, etc
}
Hope this helps :)
31 - Dew
I believe one of BC's most attractive features is that there is no padding and no patterns. When I joined I wasn't asked to stick to a certain topic and/or political correctness. I think that’s great.
Even when opinions are opposing they still need to be heard despite their troll-ish connotations.
Expression is a divine right to all; the restrictions lie in the mediums we choose as outlets for those expressions. BC works because it does not condense posts to suit an agenda. The only agenda is in the diversity of the uncensored posts themselves. Now that’s what I call ‘fair and balanced’.
32 - Eric Olsen
thanks TD and Dew, I agree entirely with your thoughts on why the site works: it truly is an open forum and a marketplace of ideas.
33 - Tom Johnson
I'm glad the site is censor-free, but I would like to see put to an end a particular grammar-nazi's insulting, demeaning put-downs to writers that this person deems "unworthy." This is pointless, unproductive, and, in the end, anti-productive because it will turn some less-skilled (but more than thoughtful enough) writers away. There is absolutely no place for that kind of ridiculous crap on this site. No one has a right to do that kind of thing and I think something needs to be done about it. I know I'm tired of seeing it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anyone else who feels the same way should speak now.
34 - Aaman
Wow - this is a great post - very insightful