PG this is not about selective censorship, IMHO. This is a community, a society. There has to be some self control or you have chaos.
I don't think this really has anything to do with copyrights. That's just the total frustration coming to the surface, IMHO.
I hate to say it but I too agree with Dr. PFP. We have gone over this before in:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum94/HTML/000834.html
As I suggested in that thread, what's to stop me from posting hundreds or thousands of stories about cigars, toys, collectibles, cars, wine, goldfish, pavement tar, sheep, television or whatever else I want to post here? Inherent guidelines, hopefully. But if not, self control. And even peer pressure.
Doc, I honestly get so sick of some of it that I feel like literally flooding the boards with "my" favorite news stories, just to make a point.
As I mentioned in the above thread, I think everyone welcomes posts that defines a person, or that shows what they are interested in. That's what helps develop a community. But Doc, there's a limit to what some people consider appropriate quanitity, let alone quality or relevance.
Hey, we all have a little fun here with our personal stuff and that's great. But like so many others have said time and again, we can get our general news elsewhere. And we should! And I do! I don't want FlyerTalk to become my one source for everything! I want to talk about the airlines, hotels, programs and the personalities here!
In so many other threads Doc, you seem unwilling to admit errors in judgment. In others you do and promise to change. But we always seem to end up right back here. You seem to argue that because many readers appreciate some of your posts, that is justification for using this forum to continue, and perhaps even increase the flow. I think that is an error in judgment.
Sadly, if things don't change we will lose some more very high quality people who came to this board from others and other newgroups to get away from the spam of unrelated stuff. I would hate to think that NJDavid was right in his final assessment of things in the last post of the above mentioned thread.
IMHO.
I'll come off my soapbox now.