IHub Moderator Ethics in Practice

[SPIN]

i'm not one of the monitors Chowd.

guys like greg_s & burp have seen it first hand -- there are spates where almost anything critical of the Company &/or its nepotistic management gets deleted irrespective of the TOU.

there is also an obvious double standard on that board that gives wide latitude to the interpretation of the TOU as it relates to "wavoids" (longs) versus a draconian approach to any critic's posts.

as for the 1st Amendment, there's no "state actor" involved, so i don't see any Constitutional issue either, but recognize how most people have an intrinsic belief that freedom of speech on message boards is quasi-sacred.

if your approach to moderating was employed ("... for the most part I kept my own feelings out of it."), there would be no measurable censorship problem on the wavx thread.

the problem is that the exact opposite of your approach is employed there (IMO).

regards.

PS "Drain bammage." LOL.