(July 12, 2013 at 6:22 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Well...as a former staff member I can say we worked hard to balance 'free speech' with 'damage control', and by that I mean that presenting your ideas in an intelligent, non-hostile, explanatory manner was protected, and flaming and/or malicious trolling is not. We've had people on this board who have violently opposed to various ideas, or been things we didn't find very savory, and their right to express themselves within the guidelines of this forum was strictly enforced.
I think much of the problem was the way it was all handled.....er, wasn't.
for instance, would it possibly have been moved to one of your other forums?- the 18 and older, etc.