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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Where you draw that line says something about you.
Your own personal line on morals and ethics says something about you, yes. Where you draw the line on what you allow people to post still says something about you as well, but it's not as clear-cut or as direct a relationship. For example, I might allow people to post opinions that are over my own moral and ethical lines, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's where my own lines are.
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Maybe you don't know what Mat's buddies are up to without the jackboot of the Regressive Left aka MrWookie.
Nice. Do you think personalizing it like this actually makes your case stronger or more convincing?
It doesn't.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
Ever heard the phrase, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water"?
It would be a shame if the only way to fix things was to close the forum. If it's decided that what's going on there now is a problem, I'd rather see new rules and/or leadership as necessary, instead of closing it.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
So would you say what is deemed appropriate and inappropriate for the various forums ultimately comes down to the financial impacts on twoplustwo, rather than moral or ethical considerations?
Why does it have to be one or the other? I've always seen it as a mix of both.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
Does anyone remember when BBV4L was almost shut down because advertisers didn't like the picures of scantily clad women? An entire 5 star tunaman thread full of hot Asian women that even Barry Greenstein was posting in was nuked. iirc people were threatened with bans if they continued to post scantily clad women. Women in bathing suits, soooo offensive.
Yup. Doesn't really have a lot to do with this thread, though.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
It's pretty clear that the concerns of advertisers matter more than the concerns of posters
No, it really isn't.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
and tptb have determined it's more profitable to keep white supremacists around than perma ban them.
I'd be very surprised if the keeping or banning of said posters has more than a negligible impact on the bottom line.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
I've seen no statements or evidence to the contrary.
There's plenty of evidence all over the forums of threads where concerns of our posters are given priority over the interests of our advertisers. Thousands and thousands of posts of it.