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Originally posted by sycamore
We generally rely on UT to enforce rule 3, and I personally think he's handled that well. But...who's to say that he's necessarily right? Who's to say that Dave enforcing it is necessarily a bad thing? Who's to say that Maggie's behavior or Dave's or mine or UT's isn't "egregiously bad?"
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Well, for as long as I've been here, it's been Tony's call. And as I said earlier, I've liked how that worked. "Who's to say" is basically Tony, it being his effort that makes the Cellar happen; this is the "LIttle Red Hen" principle. T'was ever thus.
Now he's delgating that role....which, being the Little Red Hen, is indeed his call. I think it will make the Cellar less like what it was and more like everything else that's out there. Just my opinion.
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I still think that the Cellar is a champion of free speech; however, I am keenly aware that there are absolutes to free speech, whether there should be or not. And those absolutes can and will vary.
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Um...variable absolutes? "Limits", maybe?
"Intolerably irritating" is indeed variable...and ignore lists were created here to allow for that variability of irritability. Some more irritable folks use them a lot. For others that's not enough; beyond not listening to those they don't like, they want the people they don't like silenced so *none* will hear them, and if they had the tools would make their entire domains invisible to the unpersons.
The Cellar, which had been under a single management, will now have several zones, each with it's own governance. Rather like laws varying between states; what is forbidden in New Jersey or California may be "legal as church on Sunday" in Pennsylvania. Essentially what was one blog is now multiple co-hosted fora.
Now we'll get to see what the results will be over the coming months.