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I'm coming back to this here in this thread - I'll split this into an extra thread if needed ...

Originally Posted by RHStoned

Yeah I think it's really ridiculous that I post a new thread and it gets deleted before anyone gets to read it but people that use racial slurs are still allowed to be a member and post more nonsense.

Well, given the nature of content in your two threads - I don't think it's ridiculous at all. With regard to the now closed MJ thread - we really don't need any explicit details of what MJ was accused to have done. People who are interested in this stuff can use Google or Bing anytime to find this "information".

Originally Posted by Betty

CHSIB

I can´t understand why the mods don´t react to some people.
Others have been banned for less!!!!!
It fascinates and worries me that some people are allowed to insult people in the worst of ways and they just get away with it. Several times, again and again!!
Personally I gotta say that I stopped reading regularly and posting a few weeks ago cos I just couldn´t stand anymore what was going on here (and still is! Hang on, it even gets worse these days...)
I had so many things to say to certain peoples posts but because I didn´t want to go down to their levels I chose the, in my opinion, wiser way and stayed away.
I loved this site, met a lot of great people on here and at concerts etc. Some of them even became close friends of mine and I´m proud and happy to have them as a part of my life!
But this site has become a forum for people with no respect for other people and their opinions, a forum for people with an apparently very weak and pathetic social life and sadly a forum without any rules or at least different rules for different people.
I don´t think the meaning of this site is to make you feel uncomfortable or even angry when you read stuff on here but that´s what it actually does for weeks now!
It´s a shame how fast all this here went downhill, especially when you think about how simple the ways to STOP it are!!!!

Kinda difficult to start an answer here, but let's see ...
Since beginning of this year, there have been roughly 15000 posts and 15(!) of them have been reported. On some of these reports we reacted, others we ignored in favor of a more relaxed forum moderation. I can only speak of me now, but during the last half year I have approximately read 10% of the above number, because I simply had no time. And that includes those reports above. That said, it would help us big time if people actually reported what pisses them off. This is way more effective than analyzing each and every post for possible offenses. Other than that, we'll try harder to moderate more efficiently and less relaxed than during the last year. That's a promise.