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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 299935" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Freedom of Speech? </p><p> </p><p><strong>The U.S. Constitution:</strong></p><p> </p><p>Amendment I</p><p> </p><p><em>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. </em></p><p> </p><p>U.S. citizens have the right to say whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want: on their own property in accordance with the laws of the land. The Constitution does not say that a privately owned website must guarantee that members can say whatever they want on the forums. It simply states that CONGRESS must not abridge the freedom of speech. </p><p> </p><p>This website is privately owned and not controlled by Congress. As the owner / admin of this site I have the right and <em>responsibility</em> to create, establish, maintain rules that best fit the community and edit, ban, disable the account and or remove the posts of anyone participating here who does not follow the website TOS. </p><p> </p><p>The Terms of Service aren't there to keep anyone from expressing their opinion. They are there to encourage intelligent conversation and suppress name calling, offensive language and misrepresentations.</p><p> </p><p>Please don't tell me that all forums contain flame wars and profanity. I've owned many websites over the years where asking the members to follow the TOS has worked very well. I currently admin 2 other forums, one is on my daughter's fashion related site and one is a parenting support forum. </p><p> </p><p>The parenting forum is the most strictly moderated one and it's also the most popular. People feel safe expressing controversial opinions there. It regularly receives inquiries from authors and researchers because of the quality of posts made by the members that use it. Its members were asked last year to volunteer for research being done by two different authors of articles recently published in Parents magazine. Every year a major university graduate program asks for members of that community to participate in their ongoing study of parenting methods. If the moderators didn't restrict flame wars and profane language I doubt most of the current members would continue to post there and we'd lose some good people, just like has happened here.</p><p> </p><p>Boorish behavior degrades the level of discussion, demeans the other members and undermines the credibility of the entire community. I know that a couple of years ago the atmosphere on this forum used to be much more tolerant and friendly. We've lost some good people because of the current negative wild west environment here. <em>There's no reason this can't be a friendly forum again, if you're not interested in that kind of community then this isn't the place for you.</em></p><p> </p><p>BTW, I use exactly the same TOS we have here on my other forums, it's just enforced more strictly on the other forums.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 299935, member: 1"] Freedom of Speech? [B]The U.S. Constitution:[/B] Amendment I [I]Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [/I] U.S. citizens have the right to say whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want: on their own property in accordance with the laws of the land. The Constitution does not say that a privately owned website must guarantee that members can say whatever they want on the forums. It simply states that CONGRESS must not abridge the freedom of speech. This website is privately owned and not controlled by Congress. As the owner / admin of this site I have the right and [I]responsibility[/I] to create, establish, maintain rules that best fit the community and edit, ban, disable the account and or remove the posts of anyone participating here who does not follow the website TOS. The Terms of Service aren't there to keep anyone from expressing their opinion. They are there to encourage intelligent conversation and suppress name calling, offensive language and misrepresentations. Please don't tell me that all forums contain flame wars and profanity. I've owned many websites over the years where asking the members to follow the TOS has worked very well. I currently admin 2 other forums, one is on my daughter's fashion related site and one is a parenting support forum. The parenting forum is the most strictly moderated one and it's also the most popular. People feel safe expressing controversial opinions there. It regularly receives inquiries from authors and researchers because of the quality of posts made by the members that use it. Its members were asked last year to volunteer for research being done by two different authors of articles recently published in Parents magazine. Every year a major university graduate program asks for members of that community to participate in their ongoing study of parenting methods. If the moderators didn't restrict flame wars and profane language I doubt most of the current members would continue to post there and we'd lose some good people, just like has happened here. Boorish behavior degrades the level of discussion, demeans the other members and undermines the credibility of the entire community. I know that a couple of years ago the atmosphere on this forum used to be much more tolerant and friendly. We've lost some good people because of the current negative wild west environment here. [I]There's no reason this can't be a friendly forum again, if you're not interested in that kind of community then this isn't the place for you.[/I] BTW, I use exactly the same TOS we have here on my other forums, it's just enforced more strictly on the other forums. [/QUOTE]
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