wet1,
Pm me if you would discuss it...
I may do that as well, but I also think it is important that any decisions to ban, delete, or edit should be clear, obvious, fair, and open. Decisions made behind closed doors without clear explanation suggest an unacceptable big brother approach and the ugliness of censorship.
If I have extended the boundries it is because I had recieved a notification of objection to the posts.
While I agree that the identity of an objector should remain anonymous I think the nature of the objection should be made public. Also a warning should come first and the potential offender should be given the chance to edit their own posts.
When in doubt no action should be taken, otherwise you will be seen to be inflicting your own subjective interpretations on the posts. There must be a clear distinction between an objector just being too sensitive and a valid offensive post.
If we base our decisions on all types of objections then I could argue that I am offended by the theist suggestions that a god exists, in which case that would be grounds for banning all theists.
In the future I shall leave them and just close the thread...
No that is wrong as well. The decision to take any action must be clear and fair. In this case I didn’t see anything objectionable. The thread seemed somewhat zany but that just meant this would become a humor thread.
So really, I didn’t see any basis for an edit. Please please can you explain your rationale.
In fairness to dickbaby, it was not he that objected.
As dick pointed out, he would not object to his own post, so I assume you made a typo there.
Cris