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This may get me banned, but this topic needs to be discussed. I am very discouraged by the recent threat to ban topics deemed off track. I posted the response below on another thread, but perhaps it needs its own discussion. I haven't read the offending post, however, this general attitude lends an air of big brother watching our every move. I'm ADD and have a very difficult time staying on topic - within my own posts. However, even for normal people, isn't being off topic in the eye of the beholder? In my opinion, responding to posts are a form of artistic expression as literature is considered a form of art. Often, I have an off-beat approach to a lot of topics, thereby, am I always guilty of hijacking? IMO, hijacking would be interjection of some type of advertisement or something along those lines -- not by adding humor, or offbeat commentary on a serious thread. The result of this censorship will be posts that may be intellectual, but boring. If one wants pure intellectual discussion, then read your professional journals. Can't the humorless posters simply skip past the posts that interject humor to read the serious responses. Seriously, I do think this heavy handed approach results in squelching response because we (or at least I) never know when the big brothers watching over me will consider my post to be hijacking. IMO, hijacking is in the eye of the beholder. Is this REALLY where we want to go? We have enough political correctness in our everyday world. Why can we not have a forum where we have the freedom to be ourselves without the threat the censorship and banning.

Brillant example of what, even I, can see as hijacking Good job! I liked it.

The points you make are very fair. As a result, please understand that the rule will be enforced with an extremely light hand.The enforcement of the rule is aimed at

OTCP...read the above

I can assure you there was more than one poster in the discussion when we were talking about this.The bottom line is that the forum has lost a tremendous percentage of its viewership year over year, as demonstrated by Google Analytics stats. We have heard the same complaints from many people in regard to board flooding by certain posters and posts from the same posters that derail other threads. Again, I can assure you there were multiple posters in this discussion.As it stands, you have posted a thread worrying that mild enforcement of a rule that already exists will hurt the forum.

Sometimes a feller just feels like Charlie Brown, why is everbody always pickin on me?

I've seen this coming. We hope this can help people post freely and perhaps posters who have left the board may return

Metho

What if you posted a thread about, lets say about cooking with grease or olive oil and someone comes to your thread talking about some nonsense that has nothing to do with your thread and someone follows by responding to the poster then your thread leads to something that has nothing to do with what you intended.The Admins and Mods are here to protect your thread as much as anyone else.There is no fun in being an Admin or Mod. We are all volunteers who do not complain about our job or responsibility. We do this because we believe discussion groups like Actscelerate can make a difference Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

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