Dear Andy,
if deleting off-topic posts qualified as "censorship", how would we be able to cope with commercial SPAM?
I believe that any forum / list has the right to apply its own rules and a post which is off topic here might be a valuable contribution somewhere else.
Having said that I never had a problem simply ignoring any posts I did not like.
Also, it is easy to set up filters which remove posts even before you see them.
So I never thought about leaving just because of a few irrelevant messages.
Laurenz
2015-11-07 17:43 GMT+01:00 Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx>:
9 subscribers departed from the list today as a result of Christopher Strevens’ posts.
List participation is, in my opinion, affected by patently off-topic and disruptive messages.
The list was established to serve as a communications venue for the friendly exchange of
information. comments and hints, etc. related to photography and its practice.
While it is recognized that it is easy enough to delete troublesome messages it would
help the overall effectiveness of the list if one did not have to do that. Same for blocking
messages from a particular individual. OTOH, he could be blocked from the list.
We have discussed “censorship” in the past and the general consensus was that we should
not engage in this practice. It is disappointing, however, when members decide they’d rather
leave than have to deal with stuff such what Christopher Strevens has posted recently and
also in the past.
Andrew Davidhazy
PF list coordinator
