Is this answer acceptable?
Moderators have recently deleted a post on this ground:
"Deleted it for low quality. You don't have absolute freedom of speech in a moderated forum. Anyhow, the above seems to be an edited version but seeing as you reposted without asking, I'm closing this. Please don't repost deleted discussions in future. If you can't accept moderation, you're better off somewhere else."
In order to underwrite your own intellectual credibility and your right to pass judgement, please set out clearly your criteria for "low quality". Given the abysmally low philosophical standards embodied in many threads on this forum, I am eager to hear them.
"Deleted it for low quality. You don't have absolute freedom of speech in a moderated forum. Anyhow, the above seems to be an edited version but seeing as you reposted without asking, I'm closing this. Please don't repost deleted discussions in future. If you can't accept moderation, you're better off somewhere else."
In order to underwrite your own intellectual credibility and your right to pass judgement, please set out clearly your criteria for "low quality". Given the abysmally low philosophical standards embodied in many threads on this forum, I am eager to hear them.
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You are at the mercy of the subjective judgements of the mod team, both individually and collectively, re low quality. We don't require your individual approval or any set of external objective criteria to establish our right to pass judgement, we simply assert it as that is how moderated forums generally work. However, the community as a whole may certainly keep us in line because we do rely on good mutual relations and general acceptance of our competence in order to be a healthy and stimulating environment for discussion. If you can convince enough members here that standards are "abysmally low", we would likely seek to raise them through stricter modding. Your other option is to leave and post somewhere you think standards are higher.
Did you use poor language? Insult people? Did you think that because you saw another post that seemed low brow in your eyes you could do the same?
My advice if you really want an answer is to politely message the person who moderated your post, and without sarcasm, snark, or a sense of superiority, humbly ask why the post was inappropriate. If they reply, do not argue or debate them. Listen and learn with humbleness. And do not go into the public forums again trying to denigrate the moderators and attempt to garner sympathy as a victim.
Furthermore, I never saw your post, so the following discourse is purely speculative.
Please don't take anything I say personally.
To me this is the clue.
Quoting alan1000
You were most likely a bit abrasive or -- heavens forbid -- racist or sexist or anti-Marxist. Childism (promoting child pornography) is right out. So is violencism, sexual abusism, stupidism. (I've seen people escorted out of this forum for wearing a t-shirt that said "I'm with stupid".) Sellism, advertisism.
On the other hand, egotism, megalomania, personal cult, religionism, and nihilism are still allowed. For the time being.
However, discussions on genderism, anti-genderism, invisibility, and funny ways to approach the gender-gender spectrum, going along with the times, are highly encouraged.
I have seen a number of post deleted by a person who was teetering on committing suicide. He wasn't saying he would, but he was yankering and jabbering on and on about his depression, his inability to get a good night's sleep and loss of appetite. He was trying to establish a foothold where he would encourage others to be exactly the same as he was, but eventually he left in dismay because 40 (approximation) percent of all his posts were taken down.
You mean like in Russia and China?
There are certainly people who get harrassed by the government and other kinds of authorities for exercising their free speech. There are groups on both the left and the right, in Europe and the US, say, who try to shut people out of public view.
Russia and China don't have to rely on doxxing and trolling and online bullies to the same degree. The worst cases of silencing in the West are business as usual in those countries, especially China because they are just vastly more organized than Russia. Exercising free speech in Russia is a bit like insulting Italians on a mob controlled speech. You might get lucky. In China Big Brother has the monitoring down to a science that unfortunately the West seems to be curious about: social credit systems, for example. Generally in the West marginalizing is the method. In R & C, it's all on the table as possible consequences. Censorhip is just step one.
You seem to be heading for taking a stand in a way that is probably not noble, just stubborn. Can't really know without having seen the posts in question. I think the above suggestion to ask the mod politely is good approach.
As far as the response including 'subjective'...that's honest. One could come up with objective criteria, but the application with always have subjective facets. How could it not when evaluating interpersonal relations, use of language, value of a post in ratio to disruption, when is an insult and insult, etc. I'd vastly prefer a forum where the moderators admit that there is a subjective element.
I doubt they are getting paid. But would probably respond to polite questions and challenges, even though that's part of their free time they don't need to give you.
More like North Korea except we allow you to leave. But you like it here, don't you?
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)! :lol:
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