Do you self-censor?

[StreetCowboy]

Think before posting; think twice before deleting...

Do you often bite your tongue on this forum and delete posts you have drafted

- for fear of being embroiled in a bickerfest with half-wits and neanderthals

- for fear of moderation, and the iron-fisted boot of petty conformity

- to avoid having a thread in your recent postings page, and rereading the same offensive drivel?

You'll be grateful to know that I do

SC

[CharlieH]

Funny that, I just typed a lovely paragraph, then deleted it !

[benalibina]

The Neanderthals seem to be absent lately.....in a mental health clinic, or just banned ? Anyway its nice and decent overhere last weeks. Civilization has returned.

[Familyonthemove]

After posting in any of the more general forums I only follow threads for a page or so - as many threads on TV degenerate into a pointless one on one spat by page 3.

[ukrules]

I occasionally start typing a post, then once I'm about a paragaph in I think 'why even bother' so I press Alt-F4 which closes the current window and the post is gone.

[chiang mai]

The Neanderthals seem to be absent lately.....in a mental health clinic, or just banned ? Anyway its nice and decent overhere last weeks. Civilization has returned.

I fully agree, I was wondering about this aspect myself recently and was trying to understand why, I wonder if the strength of the Baht is keeping them away.

[Crazy chef 1]

The Neanderthals seem to be absent lately.....in a mental health clinic, or just banned ? Anyway its nice and decent overhere last weeks. Civilization has returned.

You're right would like to know where they are some has been funny sometimes...

[sirineou]

Agree with all of the above. glad to see that I am not along,

after about seven years in this forum, I am beginning to get a feel of when and with whom I can have have a meaningful conversation and when I would be wasting my time.and should stay away.

I must say. I like the Farang Pub section, Some of the Threads crack me up, lot's of good matured humore

[sirineou]

The Neanderthals seem to be absent lately.....in a mental health clinic, or just banned ? Anyway its nice and decent overhere last weeks. Civilization has returned.

You're right would like to know where they are some has been funny sometimes...

Here I am

[pgrahmm]

Even if a quality thread....once the bickering/sniping starts it's not worthy to follow/comment at that point on.....

[SoiBiker]

The Neanderthals seem to be absent lately.....in a mental health clinic, or just banned ? Anyway its nice and decent overhere last weeks. Civilization has returned.

There has been a noticeable improvement lately, hasn't there?

[cooked]

I have been called ignorant and inadequate in the past, also accused of living in a hovel.(not true!) I can still remember the names of a few posters that did get banned eventually. Bendix was in a class of his own.

I self censor when it comes to politics and have a few times deleted a post. I self censor at home also, who doesn't?.

[Stan42]

My mommy always told me it's best to stay quiet and let people think I'm retarded, than open my mouth and remove all doubt. I'm told I'm a very quiet person.

[Brit_Doggie]

Let em bicker,bite,censor or otherwise,just keep away from my life and i'll return the compliment.

[pgrahmm]

Seems like a few have no censorship in their LIFE....Let alone in public forum.....even if they have a valid point they find some way to poison the well.....

[Thaddeus]

Post or red X.

The ratio swings heavily to the red X the later it gets in the day.

[GarryP]

I refuse to answer the OP on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.

[StreetCowboy]

I occasionally start typing a post, then once I'm about a paragaph in I think 'why even bother' so I press Alt-F4 which closes the current window and the post is gone.

Most of the time I start from my "Streetcowboy's Content" page (self-satisfied b*** that he is), and I think, before I delete "Is this really the sort of thread I want to keep coming back to? Do I really want to read more of this drivel?"

SC

[rijb]

Only in the Chiang Rai forum.

[piltdown]

There is something fundamentally is wrong if you feel you have to censor yourself .Foul language censored fine but to limit free speech is the thin edge of the wedge so beloved by little dictators.

Edited April 8, 2015 by piltdown

[StreetCowboy]

There is something fundamentally is wrong if you feel you have to censor yourself .Foul language censored fine but to limit free speech is the thin edge of the wedge so beloved by little dictators.

Free speech is best preserved by not abusing it

[smokie36]

There is something fundamentally is wrong if you feel you have to censor yourself .Foul language censored fine but to limit free speech is the thin edge of the wedge so beloved by little dictators.

Free speech is best preserved by not abusing it

I'm preserving mine on here by not commenting on one particularly abhorrent....bullying and filthy thread.

I'm not a shill is the problem I suppose.

[Bernard Flint]

Pontificators, are the worst

[smokie36]

Pontificators, are the worst

Multiple account holders chatting to each other and awarding themselves high fives while being supported by the lords and masters are worse.....far far worse.

There's worse things....but I'd be breaking the rules by discussing that sort of issue.

[piltdown]

StreetCowboy post # 21

Free speech is best preserved by not abusing it

But who or what is the arbiter of free speech and its perceived bias or abuse?

[SoiBiker]

Talking about free speech on a website like this is just silly. You want to speak freely? Find your own place to do so. You want to post on a privately-owned forum? Then you have to abide by the rules you agreed to when you signed up.

[Cypress Hill]

There are some posters who seem to believe that every vacuous thought that enters their minds deserves to be aired in a dedicated thread - I don't think I need to name them

Of course, they're entitled to do it but there's a more convenient and appropriate platform for that . . . it's called Twitter

[Soutpeel]

Talking about free speech on a website like this is just silly. You want to speak freely? Find your own place to do so. You want to post on a privately-owned forum? Then you have to abide by the rules you agreed to when you signed up.

Of course but by the same token don't you think said rules should be applied evenly , what is a rule for one should be a rule for all ?

The fact is privately owned or not, it the members and their comments which have made a forum, without decent members a forum is nothing and without member's there are no sponsors

[SoiBiker]

I wasn't aware any decent members had left.

It's up to Thai Visa how they run their forum. They prefer us not to discuss how they do that, so not much we can say about how the rules are applied really.

It's their ball, so their rules. If we don't like it, we can find another game.

[Soutpeel]

I wasn't aware any decent members had left.

It's up to Thai Visa how they run their forum. They prefer us not to discuss how they do that, so not much we can say about how the rules are applied really.

It's their ball, so their rules. If we don't like it, we can find another game.

Who said anything about decent member leaving SB ?

I certainly didn't I am talking in general terms

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