PPRuNe Pop
I have personally removed 19 posters (all of them trolls) permanently from this forum who had no idea what the word debate meant or who were totally childish and clearly thought that swearing and abusiveness to others was normal. Their understanding of normal always demonstrated that they were not.
Now I have no complaints personally about the way Pprune is being moderated in fact looking though other similar forums Pprune is an example how debate and exchanges of views can serve the greater good of the service men and women of this country without resorting to jumbled swear words.
There is of cause a however coming so here it is .
However reading through the TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE page I noticed this:
Postings do not reflect our views; and we do not have any obligation to monitor, edit, or review any Postings on the Site. We assume NO responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such Postings nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such Postings on the Site.
It does appear that although you have no obligation to monitor edit or review you do so regularly and although you assume no responsibility for profanitiy's and obsenity you do regularly remove such postings.
Now under the Defamation Act 1996 as both the publisher and the author of defamatory material can be sued for making defamatory statements. This means that both us as posters and author of the content, and Pprune as the publisher, can be sued for defamation.
This would seem to imply that you as moderators do in fact have to assume responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such Postings and for any error, defamation, libel, slander.
In conclusion the Moderators are doing a good job of watching our backs and preventing posters from crossing the line ( I include myself in this) it maybe argued that in order to keep Pprune a bastinion of free discussion and exchanging of views that they should be tougher in their approach.
I would end by saying I am grateful to the moderators who have in the past curbed the hurtful jibes made by posters hiding behind their anonymity against families who have lost husbands,brothers and sons.