Censorship

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  RHP User

  5 years ago

  I’m more worried about exposure personally. When I have my settings set to not show when I’m online it shows up anyway, then keeps displaying that I’m online long after I close the app again. Feels kind of like I’m being thrown to the wolves sometimes, I contacted admin about it, they said they’d fix it and they did...for a little while, then it went back to how it was. Anyone else have this issue? (Probably pointless asking because I doubt the comment will get through, lol)

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  73bandit

  5 years ago

  Welcome to the new world that apathetic Australian have allowed. News flash it is going to get a hell of alot worse and very quickly.

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  Andremmo

  5 years ago

  I think that censorship is not necessarily a bad thing although there is a very large grey area on what should be acceptable and what shouldn't. For one thing, it does allow a website to remain palatable to the users. I am active on other unrelated forums and often give large amounts of time to help random strangers on the internet solve IT problems. Nowdays I rarely visit unmoderated sites because without some form of censorship/moderation, trolls make the experience non-enjoyable and traffic to the site dwindles as a result of lots of others feeling the same way. You don't have to look to hard to find instances of uncensored lies and conspiracy theories being believed and causing massive societal schisms. Censorship is what attempts to prevent or minimise this. Banning news feeds is not what I consider censorship - it is more related to intellectual property laws whereby the producer of the content wants to be paid by the consumers of that content. This is also not a bad thing - if content producers spend money to create something of value then they should have a way to recoup that money and perhaps even make a profit from it. In the case of this site censorship/moderation prevents the most egregious forum posts from staying up to offend the majority of users. As far as I can tell, you are still free to share your naughty photos but only paid members can see them - this is a key leverage tactic of how the site owners entice users to pay for this service. Those same paying site users want some form of censorship to reduce catfishing and reuse of "collected images you could add to your wall". On balance I would rather be on a moderated (or censored if you prefer) site where people are encouraged to play nice and avoid the worst of the friction that can arise when keyboard warriors go to war. The grey areas allows bias to creep in - there are allowed posts that are outright nasty and complete over-blown reactions to what has been said. Those posts that get let through are often written by regular women contributors (who may actually be moderators for all I know) whilst less offensive posts by less valued customers (single men) are axed. This honeypot bias on the forums is the censorship that offends me - the rest I can understand and appreciate.

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  MsSuperFoxy

  5 years ago

  It is a good thing. It really "cleaned" up this site, which really needed to happen. Ms Foxy

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  SpicyKale

  5 years ago

  Shells, I’m guessing you’re talking about Insta and not here? I don’t know if there’s been a huge change on here over the last few years besides the site refresh. If anything on the forum, it’s members deleting their own posts that’s become a problem. Stand by your bs, or don’t post in the first place is my theory 🤷🏻‍♂️ To the censorship issue on networking sites, I think wired moral values in the USA and CEOs being bullies have more to do with the crackdowns of the last few years than anything else. Anyone would think we were in mainland China!

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  RHP User

  5 years ago

  Personally, I was well over the trolling that I couldn't post a topic without someone with a negative agenda posting their "opinion", which would have nothing to do with the topic. My heart sunk when I saw a post on my my topic the other day and I wondered how I would save it from the shit show that would likely follow. It dominated my mind as I attended my appointment, but what a relief to get home and it was gone! Whew! It did put me off replying at all for a bit but it was good to see natural conversation continue to flow.

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  Cucknshells

  5 years ago

  Can anyone tell me where I can find the forum guidelines. I keep breaching them. Would be nice to know how I am breaching them. Shells xx

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  2EssesExploring

  5 years ago

  Censorship, what could go wrong? Unless it’s done by those evil commie Chinese, or those evil Ruskis, or those evil middle eastern types! Surely rich western white men would only censor us if it was for our own good and the benefit of the whole of society? Personally I feel safer hearing people speak their minds, argument for and against and no hiding the truth to push agendas. But then I’m just crazy like that.

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  RHP User

  5 years ago

  Are any of us ever, really going to be happy with censorship? I'm glad FB got it's shit together and resurrected some of the emergency pages/groups because what the? That the algorithm blocked their own news page was just too ironic. That they think they should get a free ride does not compute and I do have to wonder if there will be any fallout from the customer base as a result. I do question that a lot of news pages do need you to subscribe to them to read their stories anyway. It's stupid they've even blocked my local news page which is always free and now we'll have to waste a hard copy to read it.

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  Cucknshells

  5 years ago

  I keep getting this notification "your forum post on has been rejected as it breached the forum guidelines". I am not sure what it is referencing. If the post is posted then I would assume it has been approved. If it is removed after that then I assume someone has reported. Personally I don't delete my posts after I have posted them.

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  AnnieWhichway

  5 years ago

  The notification of breaching forum rules/deletion seems to be an automatic thing when a group of posts are deleted, not necessarily that you have caused it. Nice to see you back Shells. Xx

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  AnnieWhichway

  5 years ago

  And nice to see Itouch2 back as well.

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  matt6974

  5 years ago

  There banning news feeds because people are going of about a privacy matter i.e torture for profit and much more in other countries were it was more to the public,they don't want it getting out,funny why Australia is the only one hey,don't trust the government the media there all fucking greedy scum,it's not what you no it's what you can prove

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  Cucknshells

  5 years ago

  What happen to the Cum Tribute post? Was interested in that one.

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