Moderating The Forums: a suggestion

[Cyrus]

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I think we need to add one more. It would be this:

Posters who put up posts that are designed to foment hatred by twisting the truth and/or deliberately linking to other Internet sites which have the same purpose will be immediately permanently barred.


[/ QUOTE ]A few observations on the above:

- Reads like a guideline outside the purpose of the rest, since it allows for a lot of arbitrariness in banning posters.

- Linking to other sites can only be done deliberately and never by accident. I presume you meant "deliberately inciting hatred". Well, I confess I'm not always able to pinpoint intent! But I take comfort in knowing that, very often, humans assign intent and maliciousness to any point of view that negatively affects our emotional state. We get angry at doorknobs.

- Do we need a list of "safe" websites? I suggest starting with the following:

www.amazon.com
www.nytimes.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.un.org
www.amnesty.org
www.hrw.org
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

--Cyrus