Forum: Photography


Subject: Censorship.

gilo25 opened this issue on Jun 22, 2003 ยท 26 posts


PunkClown posted Mon, 23 June 2003 at 2:50 AM

Thanks Donald, I really do appreciate that. And I know most people realise that the world is not B&W.
When gilo25 replied: "You didn't like the the pic, fine, but don't tell me 'bear it in mind', 'we deem it not fit' etc etc because it is irritating. You are just exercising your power, fine. But don't tell me you are applying rules here. You are just taking arbitrary and far from objective decisions." I realised that he has not seemed to have opened his mind to anything that myself or my fellow moderators have said. I didn't mind the pic actually, but could see why it would not be suitable for this site, which (once again I say) involved a lot of the subtle context laden details I tried to explain in post #10. I hope that particular post was as understandable in the light of this discussion as I tried to make it...We are not "just exercising our power", what possible return would there be in that? Not one of the mods (with the possible exception of myself JOKE), have shown any tendency to the kind of megolomania or overt egotism that would lead them to exercise the power to remove images for it's own sake. Believe me, I do not engage in these dialogues "for fun" ~ We do NOT like to remove images and these decisions are far from being purely subjective, they are very seriously discussed...but all this has been explained, I am merely reiterating it for the last time I'm not sure why... I for one will not be posting again on this particular topic.
Peace to all, and I hope everyone will still enjoy posting their images to this site, taking part in the forums and continue to take part in the stimulating discussions we have regarding our art here...I know it's why I come here. The place may not be completely perfect, but hey, what is?

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