I am the person responsible for maintaining and moderating *cino’s discussion board, which is intended to be an open forum for honest and constructive dialogue. And yes, I deleted ricky bobby’s user account, though not for the reasons eddie has suggested above. The only time we have ever censored any legitimate user on the discussion board for inappropriate comments was several years ago when two friends exchanged insults that didn’t make sense in a virtual context. Both were contacted when the material was removed and given full explanations.
ricky bobby’s case was a bit of an accident. After returning from a 10 day trip to Ontario for our Practicing Resurrection conference, I found our discussion board had been bombarded by spammers and proceeded, as I regularly do, to delete the threads about penis enlargement, anal sex and other pleasantries that are posted in an attempt to secure better Google rankings by having more links directed to their sites. During this process, I also delete the users who have posted the spam messages because they are not engaged in the community whatsoever and are merely attempting to exploit this discussion board.
In this process, I found several of ricky bobby’s more irrelevant posts that appeared to do nothing more than toss insults at anyone/thing in the vicinity and assumed they were spam. So I deleted his/her user account and began deleting his/her posts. As it has been a very busy week for me, I didn’t realize until several days later (while still attempting to prune spam) that some of ricky bobby’s posts were indeed legitimate and that he/she was, in fact, a legitimate user. If ricky bobby had engaged conversations in a more constructive and appropriate manner, I probably would not have mistaken him/her for a spammer.
And so I apologize. In my haste to delete spam from the discussion board, I accidentally and inappropriately deleted a legitimate user—something I have never done in the past. *cino has never engaged in censorship on our discussion board.
If ricky bobby would like to continue his/her involvement in the *cino community, please contact me (robvgr[at]cultureisnotoptional[dot]com). In reading more of the threads in which ricky bobby posted, I realize he did have some valuable (if unorthodox) contributions to discussion and appreciate those who have been participating for continuing to engage in constructive dialogue.
laurencer
Aug 17 2006
10:37 am
I am the person responsible for maintaining and moderating *cino’s discussion board, which is intended to be an open forum for honest and constructive dialogue. And yes, I deleted ricky bobby’s user account, though not for the reasons eddie has suggested above. The only time we have ever censored any legitimate user on the discussion board for inappropriate comments was several years ago when two friends exchanged insults that didn’t make sense in a virtual context. Both were contacted when the material was removed and given full explanations.
ricky bobby’s case was a bit of an accident. After returning from a 10 day trip to Ontario for our Practicing Resurrection conference, I found our discussion board had been bombarded by spammers and proceeded, as I regularly do, to delete the threads about penis enlargement, anal sex and other pleasantries that are posted in an attempt to secure better Google rankings by having more links directed to their sites. During this process, I also delete the users who have posted the spam messages because they are not engaged in the community whatsoever and are merely attempting to exploit this discussion board.
In this process, I found several of ricky bobby’s more irrelevant posts that appeared to do nothing more than toss insults at anyone/thing in the vicinity and assumed they were spam. So I deleted his/her user account and began deleting his/her posts. As it has been a very busy week for me, I didn’t realize until several days later (while still attempting to prune spam) that some of ricky bobby’s posts were indeed legitimate and that he/she was, in fact, a legitimate user. If ricky bobby had engaged conversations in a more constructive and appropriate manner, I probably would not have mistaken him/her for a spammer.
And so I apologize. In my haste to delete spam from the discussion board, I accidentally and inappropriately deleted a legitimate user—something I have never done in the past. *cino has never engaged in censorship on our discussion board.
If ricky bobby would like to continue his/her involvement in the *cino community, please contact me (robvgr[at]cultureisnotoptional[dot]com). In reading more of the threads in which ricky bobby posted, I realize he did have some valuable (if unorthodox) contributions to discussion and appreciate those who have been participating for continuing to engage in constructive dialogue.