But then they turn around and say that there's no censorship. Now, what I think is that those are guidelines (not rules), and the fact that they're labelled "etiquette" implies this. However, to avoid confusion, the admins could fix all this by adding one word:
But then they turn around and say that there's no censorship.
I must have missed it, you don't happen to remember where you saw that? My impression has been that this is a moderately curated community in order to maintain a friendly atmosphere. This leads me to believe downright hateful content might end up getting removed.
No censorship: We strongly believe that transparency and freedom of speech is vital to any community, especially online. For this reason, submitted content belongs to users and thus can never be removed. As the community grows and expands, we will continue keeping our censorship-free ideology as a top priority to uphold.
I mean, there's this in the etiquette on posting & commenting:
fatpeoplehate would seem to fall in the latter camp (i.e. hate speech), no?
But then they turn around and say that there's no censorship. Now, what I think is that those are guidelines (not rules), and the fact that they're labelled "etiquette" implies this. However, to avoid confusion, the admins could fix all this by adding one word:
I must have missed it, you don't happen to remember where you saw that? My impression has been that this is a moderately curated community in order to maintain a friendly atmosphere. This leads me to believe downright hateful content might end up getting removed.
Here you go. Under Our Mission, it says:
Huh, cool. Thanks :)
Interesting to see how that goes along with the etiquette, I suppose it means it's up to the community to follow it & encourage others to do the same.