Rappstar wrote:
I posted about an option to try to preserve the content of the Womens Forum for historical posterity. We don't really have an "archive but still searchable" option for forums, but I can rig up something close enough.
As far as locking specific threads, yes, of course some posts will have value. The problem we have is that - in some cases - removing content that we feel simply doesn't belong on the forum ends up being intractable.
People quote people who quote people and you simply cannot extract the "bad parts" of a thread and still have it be understandable. This is made even more complicated because of potential concerns around record keeping. I.e., we may need a record about what was actually said, which makes extraction of certain posts from the larger thread even more difficult.
As with discussions of "first amendment rights," analogies to book banning feel quite excessive.
The government telling you what you can and cannot read is a far stretch from a private business making decisions about what sort of content it chooses to host or not on its own servers. I'm sorry, but I simply do not see those as analogous, and I would say that equating them only weakens your argument. Slowtwitch is not - and can never be - a
totalitarian government. And equating these actions diminishes the very real harm that actual book bans and other autocratic actions have in the real world.
Thanks for your reply.
The "Article; Athletes in Larger Bodies" thread (which had 353 replies) is no longer readable. I don't recall it being offensive. My recollection is some people were offended that others thought body weight was controllable. Since the thread is no longer available to read, I have no choice but to rely on my recollection. I would have found it interesting to see what people think now that Ozempic is all the rage and people who previously preached body positivity have now lost weight and are significantly lighter than what they earlier argued was their "natural body weight."
As for book bans, they aren't just the work of totalitarian governments. Google 'book ban" and click on the news tab and you will see that it is a hot topic in America today. Book bans in America aren't about the government "telling you what you can and cannot read." It's a question of what books schools and public libraries are going to have on the shelves. But I would prefer to stay on the topic.
If I were to start a thread "Athletes in Larger Bodies Revisited in Light of Ozempic", would Slowtwitch lock it down?