Post by EXO on Oct 21, 2010 14:19:08 GMT 8
Yesterday, I was in receipt of a complaint against this forum, made by a private individual to an authority, which demanded the withdrawal of a number of threads involving unresolved issues of development of Corregidor, scrapping and the like.
Essentially it was a demand that because the contents of our forum were not to this individual's satisfaction, the forum should submit to a higher power, and the articles withdrawn. It ended with an invitation to personal violence against me.
This forum, as all of you (except the complainant) know, performs many functions and one of them is somewhat like a "letters to the editor" process, where if you have a point, you write in and put it to the general consensus.
We weren't dealing with a "flamer."
Plus, we were dealing with someone who failed entirely to understand satire - even weak and ineffectual satire.
That is not a reason to CENSOR this forum.
DIRTY WORK IS ALL TOO OFTEN DONE IN THE DARK, UNDER THE GUISE OF PRIVACY. THUS I TURNED THE SPOTLIGHT UPON HIM. HARD. I PUBLISHED THE FELLOW'S LETTER. MY ULTIMATUM WAS IF THE LETTER/THE COMPLAINT WAS WITHDRAWN, THEN I WOULD WITHDRAW THE PUBLICATION OF THE LETTER.
You will see that as a consequence of this publicity, I have been told that the complaint is withdrawn. Consequently, I have withdrawn the thread.
(I have it stored in a safe place.)
If I hear so much as a peep out of this fellow again, I shall have not the slightest hesitation to name him and shame him.
To those people who, seeing in his complaint the same evils and errors that I had seen, thank you for your timely written responses - Tomasctt, stevenfo, fots2, okla, Karl Welteke, johneakin. To those who called and offered assistance, advice and support, thank you also, Steve and Tony. And Art too.
I continue to refuse point blank to remove the posts complained about. They are ancient history, but like all of us who study history, we must - all of us - must decline to censor it after the fact.
I refuse also to submit this forum to "before the fact" censorship. It is a worthwhile international community, of positive value to Corregidor, but worthwhile only while our views are unafraid. I expect that anyone who shows their face here and is uncivil or impolite, ultra-nationalist or racist, will get his ears soundly boxed.
I won't give up trying to remind authors when they wander off topic, but only in the hope that they will start a new post on the new topic.
In the meantime, we are having troubles again with our website host, M6.com. They have written to tell me that they are replacing their old server which they claim is at "end of life." They promise me it wouldn't create any difficulties.
They lied.
Suffice to say, they have managed to so thoroughly screw up the job, that the one thing I want of them - continuity of hosting - has been 100% compromised.
All I want from a host is an invoice from month to month that charges me for not having to worry me with their problems. Stay away from M6.com
We will be shifting to a new host during the next several days. It is a slow process.
ExO.
Essentially it was a demand that because the contents of our forum were not to this individual's satisfaction, the forum should submit to a higher power, and the articles withdrawn. It ended with an invitation to personal violence against me.
This forum, as all of you (except the complainant) know, performs many functions and one of them is somewhat like a "letters to the editor" process, where if you have a point, you write in and put it to the general consensus.
We weren't dealing with a "flamer."
Plus, we were dealing with someone who failed entirely to understand satire - even weak and ineffectual satire.
That is not a reason to CENSOR this forum.
DIRTY WORK IS ALL TOO OFTEN DONE IN THE DARK, UNDER THE GUISE OF PRIVACY. THUS I TURNED THE SPOTLIGHT UPON HIM. HARD. I PUBLISHED THE FELLOW'S LETTER. MY ULTIMATUM WAS IF THE LETTER/THE COMPLAINT WAS WITHDRAWN, THEN I WOULD WITHDRAW THE PUBLICATION OF THE LETTER.
You will see that as a consequence of this publicity, I have been told that the complaint is withdrawn. Consequently, I have withdrawn the thread.
(I have it stored in a safe place.)
If I hear so much as a peep out of this fellow again, I shall have not the slightest hesitation to name him and shame him.
To those people who, seeing in his complaint the same evils and errors that I had seen, thank you for your timely written responses - Tomasctt, stevenfo, fots2, okla, Karl Welteke, johneakin. To those who called and offered assistance, advice and support, thank you also, Steve and Tony. And Art too.
I continue to refuse point blank to remove the posts complained about. They are ancient history, but like all of us who study history, we must - all of us - must decline to censor it after the fact.
I refuse also to submit this forum to "before the fact" censorship. It is a worthwhile international community, of positive value to Corregidor, but worthwhile only while our views are unafraid. I expect that anyone who shows their face here and is uncivil or impolite, ultra-nationalist or racist, will get his ears soundly boxed.
I won't give up trying to remind authors when they wander off topic, but only in the hope that they will start a new post on the new topic.
In the meantime, we are having troubles again with our website host, M6.com. They have written to tell me that they are replacing their old server which they claim is at "end of life." They promise me it wouldn't create any difficulties.
They lied.
Suffice to say, they have managed to so thoroughly screw up the job, that the one thing I want of them - continuity of hosting - has been 100% compromised.
All I want from a host is an invoice from month to month that charges me for not having to worry me with their problems. Stay away from M6.com
We will be shifting to a new host during the next several days. It is a slow process.
ExO.