Freedom of speech
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:30 pm
Fred, I am not sure why you have locked the thread:
"I want to learn a Basic dialect (the whole picture)"
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=40027
AS far as I can see it does not violate the rules you have enumerated:
Off Topic Rules:
No flame wars
No religious posts
No sexual or offensive posts
Thanks and have fun !
What is it about a simple discussion of the problems with another vendor that warrents the locking of the thread? Why can't you just let people have their say and when they are done it will die a natural death. Freedom of speach is a concept that nations go to war over. It is possibly the biggest issue that underpinns the democratic freedom we all enjoy in the west, yet in a forum we are to be denied this? Why?
Mr Zale loves to pontificate endlessly about powerbasic forum being his "private property". Is that the argument you are going to use too? If it is, I might remind you that the cost of a compiler is negligable when compared to the community support that is available for it. Developers are a prickly lot at the best of times and will have controversial views about almost everything. Are you going to close threads on each one that is not to your liking?
If the thread was truly boring, it would have just died. It didn't. By closing it, you are denying me and others the chance to respond (politely and respectfully as always), eliminating free speech with a single click, and forcing your defnintion of "boring" down the throats of everyone here.
I would like to siggest that this might not be the smartest move for your product, and is a conspicously obvious hallmark of a heavy handed moderator that has not yet matured enough to be able to tolerate dissention, criticism and diverse opinions.
This is a slippery slope that leads to the dictatorship that exists on the powerbasic forums. In my opinion, it makes little sense to create a brilliant product like purebasic only to undermine it with this behavior. When you offer your products for sae and invite consumers to stop by, you are now a host to a visitor. Visitors like hotel guests, must be seduced if you want them to come back. Enforcing appropriate rules, as you enumerated above, is like saying don't break the furniture or steal the towels, but you can't stop people expressing themselves unless you want guests that only think like you. That is a luxury of wealthy, not a commercial forum. Please reopen that thread.
"I want to learn a Basic dialect (the whole picture)"
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=40027
AS far as I can see it does not violate the rules you have enumerated:
Off Topic Rules:
No flame wars
No religious posts
No sexual or offensive posts
Thanks and have fun !
What is it about a simple discussion of the problems with another vendor that warrents the locking of the thread? Why can't you just let people have their say and when they are done it will die a natural death. Freedom of speach is a concept that nations go to war over. It is possibly the biggest issue that underpinns the democratic freedom we all enjoy in the west, yet in a forum we are to be denied this? Why?
Mr Zale loves to pontificate endlessly about powerbasic forum being his "private property". Is that the argument you are going to use too? If it is, I might remind you that the cost of a compiler is negligable when compared to the community support that is available for it. Developers are a prickly lot at the best of times and will have controversial views about almost everything. Are you going to close threads on each one that is not to your liking?
If the thread was truly boring, it would have just died. It didn't. By closing it, you are denying me and others the chance to respond (politely and respectfully as always), eliminating free speech with a single click, and forcing your defnintion of "boring" down the throats of everyone here.
I would like to siggest that this might not be the smartest move for your product, and is a conspicously obvious hallmark of a heavy handed moderator that has not yet matured enough to be able to tolerate dissention, criticism and diverse opinions.
This is a slippery slope that leads to the dictatorship that exists on the powerbasic forums. In my opinion, it makes little sense to create a brilliant product like purebasic only to undermine it with this behavior. When you offer your products for sae and invite consumers to stop by, you are now a host to a visitor. Visitors like hotel guests, must be seduced if you want them to come back. Enforcing appropriate rules, as you enumerated above, is like saying don't break the furniture or steal the towels, but you can't stop people expressing themselves unless you want guests that only think like you. That is a luxury of wealthy, not a commercial forum. Please reopen that thread.
