<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Feamom:
I am very new here and I am perplexed by the number of threads that get closed without explanation.
Is this a form of censorship?
Is this a Politically Correct Site?
Also there seems to be an inordinate amount of rules when I signed up. I thought the whole point of the internet was the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions. There seems to be an orthodoxy here that seems to stifle free thinking.
Please tell me i am wrong.</font>
OK, you are wrong.
Most, a very vast majority of the threads that are closed, are closed because they are in the wrong place, if the last message doesn't indicate it then there is a line on the upper left side above the message block that usually says where it was moved to. Very few get shut off and not moved, and there is usually an explaination for that.
It's not censorship, as this isn't a public site, it's a site run by somebody who can do whatever they want to. If one day they get pissed off at the letter i, they can remove it from all the posts.
And while the internet as a whole is a free and open exchange, it's up to the owner of each and every site to set what they consider appropriate or not in their sites. It's nothing new, there have been moderated sites online since the beginning of the internet.