I protest!

[JohnD]

A few days ago, an old thread was resurrected: http://www.bautforum.com/science-tec...ontrol-14.html

It was closed down and locked by PetersCreek after two or three new contributions.
The new posts, to be honest, didn't add much nor did they change the tone of the thread, which for such an inflammatory subject had been a model of reasoned debate. Well, almost, but there had been no flaming or, if memory serves me, posts deleted by the Mods.

In the last previous post in that thread, I had volunteered to be on the last barricade in favour of free speech, with Voltaire and Mikes, whatever the opinion expressed as long as it was rational and reasoned. So here I am again, bloodied but unbowed, to raise another barricade and demand that the thread is reopened.

Close it down again, IF the language and the politics become ill-flavoured, but not until.

John

[SolusLupus]

So here I am again, bloodied but unbowed, to raise another barricade and demand that the thread is reopened.

Dramatic much?


To be fair, I did find it amusing how quickly the thread was locked down, when it went on for so long previously. But at the same time, people keep complaining about how the moderators are inconsistent. So now they're acting consistently, but that's bad too.

[Swift]

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