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great point FizzingWhizzbees!
Angela Harlem said:Lets try and keep some perspective here. The mosaic has images of people who've lost their lives, using said images for a political message. Political messages are fine, and so is art. But not at the exploitation and expense of the deceased. As for how this fits in here, it's JUST an internet forum. If the internet had the power to silence ideas, then we'd have a problem but one thread being closed on an internet message board is hardly going to change the emotion I'm sure said artist felt when he/she was compiling that little excercise in thoughts/opinions.
It was actually only closed because enough people had a problem with it - like many threads get closed around here. I know some people love to imagine a double standard and some go so far as to expect absolute clinical routine in the moderating. THIS specific thread is only still open because enough people seem to object to the orginal closure. So stop blaming us, and decide for yourselves. We react to one and piss the other off. Vice versa. And so on. Etc.
We cant please you all, so either deal with it or find a way to compromise.
toindra said:"...and decide for yourselves" is exactly why the other thread should remain open. People don't like it, they can post that opinion and then go on. Same for those who do like or agree with it. To close it takes away that option.
indra said:But what is your definition of a meaningful discussion? Perhaps that is part of the problem. I actually though the discussion was moving along just fine in that thread.
threads do not get closed because of cursing, though we might delete the (part of the) posts this happens innamkcuR said:I just feel like some people here would perfer it if every discussion were G-rated and there was never any cursing at each other or any violent verbal disagreements or anything inflammatory like that. And that's not the way the real world works. If you can't handle an arguement online, how are you ever going to handle one in the real world? Also, I just find it about 'tight' that this site has many, many members, and yet it takes only three or four complaints to get a thread closed.
And, like Indra, I know what it's like to be a mod because I am one at another board.