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Old 12-06-2007
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Re: why is there suddenly a plethora of racist threads?
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Originally Posted by Speakeasy View Post
Our intent isn't to limit free speech, but to make people think a bit harder before posting a thread about everything that crosses their mind.

It's true that clamping down and putting more restrictions on posters may be bad for the site and result in members leaving. However, we also believe that allowing certain groups to invade the board would result in members leaving or not joining in the first place. A new member browsing the board may be quite turned off if 90% of the articles in the Breaking News section are racist rants against black people, for example.

It's kind of like we'd be encouraging people to focus on particular debates a bit more and make them talk with other members, rather than trying to 'yell' and flood the board.

In addition, a lot of these people that invade the board aren't interested in debate or discussion. Their intent is to 'win' their debate by clogging up the forum with threads that reflect their stance on issues, not through reasoned debate and exchanging ideas.
I'm still pondering the idea about the ramping of thread creation with existing memebership/time/number of posts. it seems like a good idea, especially since I found a new member questioning what kind of place this is in one of the WN threads. I posted to let him know that what he sees is a relatively new phenomenon.

It can be a turnoff and bad "marketing" for others who are visiting for the first time when dumping occurs from another group.

I'm trying to think of a downside to this thought of thread creation privileges, but finding it hard to do so (other than implementation and enforcement for an already taxed mod/admin team?)
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