Censorship, Your thoughts? Options

[mr_dude]

I wrote a poll for fun. Some people took it very seriously, and were offended not so much by the poll itself, but by the idea that it might spawn dissenting opinions. Presure closed it. I was pretty amazed given the amount of political flaming and argumentation that took place last year, which, as far as I know didn't result in any serious emotional damage. The unilateral decision to silence the topic was unnerving, but props to Presure for not deleting it altogether.

So here's my serious poll. It's truly out of interest for what people think. I don't care that my topic was closed, I don't need a web forum to crack jokes about things that don't matter. But any intelligent and concise thoughts people have I'd be intrigued to read.

[mr_dude]

the sudden swtich in additude is that I am now a mod.

Up until this point I thought it was all a pretty reasonable discussion about what people thought was destructive to a site. Now it seems the measuring stick is what is constructive. If people don't directly learn about their car from a post, it gets deleted... just so we can be like mr2oc and company.

First, I think this goes hand in hand with Saleeka comment about it being rather fascist.

Second, I don't think too many people agree with your attitude that "things should change." I guess Coomer doesn't mind because he's not reigned in his loose cannon. But given the poll results and the number of people who LIKE TO BS on off topic, it seems contrary to the wishes of the community. Or at least something that should be discussed and announced.

Third, it doesn't seem reasonable. Determining what is and is not relevant seems slippery, can we talk about racing parts, recent race events, motorcycle racing, whether or not someone should get a bike, the gnarly bike crash someone saw the other day... How do you want to determine where to draw the line? Having strict progressivist standards, you'll find your mailbox full of "why did my post get deleted and not this other guy's?"

Does Coomer get paid (to keep the site up) based on users or hits?

Your self-proclaimed messianic status is noble but seems a bit misguided.