Forum Archive Index - March 2001

[Will Bryant <will@sharechat.co.nz>]

>Without wishing to be a pain Will, is it not technically possible
>for Sharechat (you or whoever) to actually remove postings
>as has been done in the past. And presumably to also prevent
Yes we do and have done - I removed the offensive ones as soon as I got in 
the door earlier today.  (Of course there's nothing I can do about those 
who receive the forum by email).

>emails/postings from certain nuisances from actually getting on
>once they've blotted their copybook?
Yes, we always do that as well (if they should later make a worthwhile 
posts we will allow them through).

>I assume that Sharechat is not resource rich enough to have
>someone constantly monitoring and that therefore there are lags
>before something is done. But is it difficult for the something to
>cover removing the offending email (e.g. the one Faizal was
>complaining about) and the subsequent comments?
In the interests of not making the archives rather confusing, we prefer to 
remove only the offensive material.

Removing the further comments gets messy, as people post replies to 
messages which aren't in the archive and those replies will be shown until 
we remove them, etc - in the end it gets very hard for someone visiting the 
archive to work out what people are talking about; so instead we try to 
censor as little as possible.

Please note that I think that it's often fairly clear to us all when 
something is offensive, and I would say that often the best thing that 
forum members can do is to delete & ignore it - should we need to we'll 
remove it when we get the chance, so messages complaining about it really 
just add to the noise.

As for removing things like this thread, which isn't offensive but is 
definitely off-topic and inappropriate, well, that's just a judgement call, 
but as I say we try not to censor any more than we have to.

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