Friends,
Everyone who read this thread knows that I tried to persuade Randy against banning GC's, and to ban 3rd party comments and debates instead in CC. I also agree that FT does have a commercial layer to it.
However, I got to side with Randy on one issue of principle. Just because a place allows something in one corner doesn't obligate it to allow the same everywhere.
My symphony center is commercial enough to sell tickets as well as drinks/snacks and it prints ads in the program; yet it may reasonably not wish itself or anyone else to conduct business during the 3rd movement.
IOW, despite FT having a commercial component, Randy is justified in banning GC's from CC if he is persuaded, as he apparently is, that they are contributing to incivility in that forum.
Perhaps there will be another time-out in future and another thread for reconsidering all this. For now, let's try to make the new policy work.
Originally Posted by
giggy
The sad part is that FT has 200,000 members and somehow 20 idiots managed to penalize them for their actions. why punish everyone???
On a lighter note, that is a much better ratio than we get nationally where 536 persons (house+senate+president) keep penalizing 300 million Americans all the time.
