Censorship on the board

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Stevewoods, Aug 5, 2016.

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  1. alanclarkeau

    alanclarkeau Senior Member

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    Our election is finished - who else has one coming?
     
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  2. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Weird. I saw that thread (but didn't actually read it). I didn't delete it. Lemme find it and read it through.

    Edit: Whoops, I misread (sorry, usually when people complain, it's because something was deleted). No I didn't change the title either. What was the original title?

    So you would rather cause chaos and place things anywhere you feel like?

    And you would rather we not respond as quickly? (n)
     
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    No, I'm not calling for chaos. My owner/mod comment was more of a general statement about the boards technical issues, our plight in regard to said issues, and the crickets heard when it is brought up time and time and time again.
     
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    So, original poster here, changed my avatar to reflect my constitutional knowledge as well as knowing I should not post after having a few drinks.

    So, I will admit to possibly having one or two too many hits of El Patron tequila on Friday, which led to my outburst. But, I still think I had a valid point or two, but I think another poster hit it actually, way lots of problems on the board and nothing said about them. Anyway, I was spending too much time here anyway, so good to get away, but despite my mix-up of amendments, I will leave you with this:

     
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  5. bisco

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    i only post after a few drinks, or at least, in the midst of.;)
     
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    There are wayyyyyy worse mistakes one can make after a few too many drinks. Submitting regretful threads/posts isn't anywhere near the top. ;)
     
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    tweeting is right up there though.:p
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    ....speaking of Trump...
     
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  9. SlowTurd

    SlowTurd I LIKE PRIUS'S

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    life is not always black and white. it is mostly gray area.

    maybe they didn't want a "bitch-fest" to start in the wrong location.
     
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    argh! you guys are gonna get us tossed.:whistle:
     
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  11. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    Ahh I see.

    Please believe me when I say I share your frustration. The board operates the same way for me as it does for you. I see the same pop-up errors with the red bar. I get the same issues with having to click "Post Reply" multiple times before the reply finally gets posted.
     
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  12. alanclarkeau

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    I think it's a great website - I don't mind the very rare red pop-up error, and yes, occasionally I have to post twice. But it's a great resource which we don't pay for, and has provided a tremendous amount of information about Prius.
     
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    I do too. There were two competing Prius forum and I ended up posting on this more because it was more active.

    It's ran smoothly until recently (last... half a year?). It's a pain. It has grown immensely too and it was fun seeing a new type of buyers when the Gen 3 came out and now with the Gen 4. And yet somehow, mostly everyone got along. You can't say that about too many other car enthusiast websites. They tend to have a few favourites that are part of a groupie and everyone else is either an outsider or a noob.
     
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  14. alanclarkeau

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    Ugggh ... half a year - that coincides almost with ... when I joined on Feb 24, 2016. Hope you don't blame me :eek:.

    I enjoyed being on the VOLVO Brickboard for a good few years - for 2 of my 3 VOLVOs, and they were a great bunch, always helpful, more of a technical help website than PriusChat, less advice on what to buy. I think we all had VOLVOs and were trying to keep them alive as cheaply as possible.
     
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    I like Volvo. My favourite was the grandpa 960 lol. The 850 definitely has its place though (it came with 15" alloys!). There's the 850 R Estate... A neighbour of mine bought a yellow one new. I thought it looked wicked.
     
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  16. alanclarkeau

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    I had a yellow one too - 1980 244. It was the yellowest yellow I've known. (Photo was with our daughter posed at their engagement party - she'd borrowed my car.) The white ones were 1973 164E and 1994 960 GLE. All great cars, but heavy on fuel compared with a Prius.
    Picture 012+.jpg VolvoKylieMarkAtEngagementParty.JPG 1973-volvo-164e - Copy.jpg
     
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    Welcome to the Toyota family! hahaha.

    I've never seen the 164E. Didn't know it existed. A colleague of my dad still drives a pristine condition 240 saloon in dark red.
     
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  18. alanclarkeau

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    The 164E (and later TE with the bulky bumpers) had a 3 litre straight 6 fuel injected engine in a 144 body with about 4" longer, leather plush carpets, fog lights (real ones designed for fog unlike today's decorative useless ones), auto reverse cassette, A/C, P/S etc. It was lovely to drive, heaps of grunt compared with a 144 - would chirp the back wheels if you tried, and handled nicely.

    My second car was a TOYOTA - a 1969 Corolla.
     
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    Nobody likes to be censored.
    And I never saw the original post or thread.

    But I would suggest two things.
    #1. That moderators are human. Thus fallible.

    #2. That sometimes it's NOT the actual post that get's deleted that is a problem.
    Right now, at this time of election year, any mention, even in harmless jest of a presidential candidate, is likely to result in a cascade of off topic conversation. So a pre-emptive strike against the mention, outside the political forum could be deemed "keeping the peace", even if the original mention was totally benign.
     
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