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Banned from DegreeInfo.Com -- Posted by Ray1212 on 11-16-04 12:51
As I stated a few days ago, I was banned from posting on DegreeInfo. I
have discovered what I thought has happened. The fact is a few members
want to tell you what to think and screen what you have to say. The
following is a post that was made there following several occasions
where I was removed for TOS violations. This isn't about Behaving in
an inappropiate manner, or using profanity. It is about stating an
opinion which I always thought was protected under Freedom of Speech.
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Bill Huffman
Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Posts: 2856
Re: Mr. Huffman, Mr. Huffman!
quote:
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Originally posted by TheSoftwareGuy
Dear Sir,
Please let me enlighten you. Click the link below. John Bear is an
administrator on the board. Now do you see?
http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showgroups.php
You stand corrected. I would consider it a conflict of interest to be
screening the posts of another member in order to restrict access to
the board just because they disagree with you. I guess he got mad when
the following was posted to this site.
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You are grasping at straws. Dr. John Bear is not a moderator on this
board. He does not have permission to edit/delete posts. Your posts
that were censored had personal attacks in them. That is against the
TOS. That's the only reason they were censored. It had nothing to do
with you defending a degree mill or disagreeing with people pointing
out that this place is a degree mill.
Why don't you answer my question? You had previously stated (when you
requested John Bear's opinion) that you respected Dr. Bear's opinion.
You have apparently flip-flopped 180 degrees on that opinion after
getting the opinion that you specifically requested. How in your own
mind can you justify such self-serving hypocrisy?
While you're at it also answer the following question that you've also
ignored, you stated that not everyone at this institution
automatically got approved. How do you know that? What lead you to
that conclusion?
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11-15-2004 06:42 AM
Chip
Administrator
Registered: Feb 2002
Location:
Posts: 848
I have today had to delete a number of posts that were personal
attacks and off topic to the discussion at hand. I've also had to
restrict the posting privileges of the individual making those posts,
since he was posting under more than one login.
Further, as has always been the case, we have no problem with
dissenting opinions or minority viewpoints, but we do have an issue
with personal attacks and inflammatory posts that are unrelated to the
topic being discussed.
These issues are clearly prohibited under the terms of service that
each member agrees to when they join the site.
I regret that this action is necessary, but I wanted the degreeinfo
community to understand the situation.
Also, just to clarify, John Bear is and always has been a contributor
to DegreeInfo, in the same way that Janko, DaveHayden, Rich Douglas,
and all of our other 4000+ members are. He is not a moderator or
administrator, and has no more input into our moderation decisions
than any other member.
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11-15-2004 09:03 AM
Jack Tracey
Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 2046
quote:
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Originally posted by Chip
I have today had to delete a number of posts that were personal
attacks and off topic to the discussion at hand. I've also had to
restrict the posting privileges of the individual making those posts,
since he was posting under more than one login.
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Hi Chip - Thanks for all the good work. Does anyone keep track of all
these anonymous logins? Today it's Ray 1212. Yesterday it was
Smell1211? I don't know. Isn't it the same one or two people over and
over? Isn't there a solution? A hitman? Something? Where's the CIA
when you really need it? Oops, I guess they're screwed now too. Can't
we appoint galanga as "boss of discovering stuff" or something like
that and root out these annoying persons (I almost said bastards )
Still trying to keep it nice (although, the world gets dirty, no?)
Jack
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These forums should be a way of giving information to the public. They
are suppose to be administered by people that are objective. And if
they disagree, they should not resort to insults or putting other
people down.
Please read many of the posts here and you decide.
http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=688cb26f649ea0499161a0f974bec899&threadid=13336&perpage=30&pagenumber=1
Thanks
Ray1212
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