Función del foro - IMPORTANTE

On 2002-08-02 02:46, astrolabio wrote:

It always starts like this. Open the door to censorship and you had best be ready to abandon your creation, because opening that door means it has been taken from you with nary a whimper.



I\'m afraid you\'ve got it all wrong.



It\'s not about censorship, it\'s about diversity. Those of us who prefer that job related subjects have a separate sub-forum have no problem with the fact that the vast majority of Spanish-speaking users will continue to use the main forum for more personal exchanges.



Besides, it was Henry\'s idea to begin with.







PD: A los moderadores,

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It\'s not about censorship, it\'s about diversity.





When a few of the fine members here (many, like you, with excellent dispositions and another smaller group who seem to have been subject to overly-strict potty training) offer your views for this particular change, some of us disagree for the very reason the fine Aurora has mentioned: (\"...puede desalentar a los que con mucha alegría disfrutamos compartiendo nuestros libros y nuestras palabras acá).



Why someone would risk such a thing over what seems to be a penchant for micro-managing, filing, compartmentalising, mini folders, sub-forums... is a mystery to me. I really cannot fathom how decanting fine wine through eyedroppers creates \"diversity\". But, I do enjoy the debate, I must say.



When I use the word censorship, I use it in it\'s purest form, not only for it\'s traditional meaning of suppression of expression. It is also the correct term for those times when one group tells the other when and/or where they will be allowed to express what they might. It is a complex matter sometimes, and because it is so, censorship is often imposed with less resistance than it deserves.



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Those of us who prefer that job related subjects have a separate sub-forum have no problem with the fact that the vast majority of Spanish-speaking users will continue to use the main forum for more personal exchanges.





I believe you are sincere, as always, and therefore I can\'t see why, since you have no problem with that fact, you desire this change in the first place. This seems to be a contradiction of sorts.



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Besides, it was Henry\'s idea to begin with.





And there is absolutely no one with more right to make changes to this site than its owner. It\'s a business, not a democracy and in business you do what best serves the ultimate goal of your company. It is no less censorship for all that.



We can split hairs over this for weeks and it won\'t make a bit of difference. It is a fait accompli. So let the moderators, webmasters and their minions go right ahead and make the changes, whip out their trusty eye droppers and show us the marvels of technology and its usefulness for forcing round pegs into square holes.



It is just that I find it curious that poetry and prose have this peculiar effect sometimes.



I wish you well,



Francis

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some of us disagree for the very reason the fine Aurora has mentioned: (\"...puede desalentar a los que con mucha alegría disfrutamos compartiendo nuestros libros y nuestras palabras acá).



Why? Do you really think that if given the choice, peope would rather read the boring, dull, 2-messages-a-day, plain vanilla forum instead of the rainbow one they enjoy so much? I seriously doubt it.



The point that some people seem to be missing is that it takes just a few minutes for a profession-related message to be completely drowned (and a few days to be taken to a different page altogether), by poetry and prose.



Henry\'s idea would put those few messages out of the way, and maybe some of them could even be answered on time.



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I believe you are sincere, as always, and therefore I can\'t see why, since you have no problem with that fact, you desire this change in the first place. This seems to be a contradiction of sorts.



I endorse Henry\'s idea because to me, Proz is a work tool, nothing more, nothing less. As such, I would prefer not having to wade through a sea of enthusiastic personal exchanges to find work-related issues.



In other words, I respect the right of others to enjoy those exchanges. In the same way I would expect others to respect my choice of having all the messages I am interested on in one place (just as in the main forum).

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