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Originally posted by cashmoney
So if a few different groups of friends here decide to complain about posts made by certain people, it's ok for their posts to be deleted and/or banned? But if one person finds one of the other posts to be flamatory or offensive, and the mod doesn't feel the same, nothing should happen? Regardless of whether or not the posts in question did in fact break GC rules/terms of agreement? So basically all your saying is that if enough people complain about person X, he/she will have something done to them. But if person X feels the same about one them, since he's the only one complaining they then get away with stuff?
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Essentially, yes. GC is not a democracy, and I don't understand what led you to believe it was. The board is run the way John and the mods think it should be run. If you don't agree with that, that's fine -- but that's the way things are here, and things are unlikely to change unless the mods and John decide they agree with you.
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Originally posted by cashmoney
If you want to talk about policy, read the terms of agreement and see how many here break them. From your post it seems as though you're ok with an hierarchy. I would assume you're ok with that because you're one of the people who has in the past got away with a lot of stuff. And that would be correct. A lot of people who get away with a lot of stuff have steered clear from posting in this thread, mainly non-mods.
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The terms of service do not run this site. John and the mods run this site. If they do not find something offensive, even if it breaks the terms of service, it's unlikely to get deleted. And of course I've gotten away with things that break the terms of service. For example, if Kath and I were new members of GC who stopped by the board and posted some of the things that we've posted in the "Southern" threads, for example, we probably would have gotten flamed and the threads would have been locked. But since we've been around a while and most of the GC-ers know that we're either exaggerating, kidding or just poking fun at them, very few people got offended. Should we be treated the same way that a new member would be treated for the same thing? I don't think so. Like I said before, context is everything.
I don't think there's a person on this site with at least a hundred posts who hasn't gotten away with some violation of the terms of service.
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