Quote from: TheRealAwesome31312 on August 02, 2019, 06:15:27 AM

I don't think self moderated threads are censorship, contrary to what most people think.

Censorship would imply that the OP is going around deleting your posts from your own thread. It does not mean someone controlling what is written in their own thread. For example, if I make a thread about waffles, I don't want some guy coming in and chiming about pancakes, even though it is perfectly within forum rules to do so. That's where self-moderation comes in. It's not censorship, because the pancake guy can simply make his own thread about pancakes.

Censorship would be if I deleted his own threads about pancakes.

What do you guys think, is making self-moderated threads censorship?

Yes it can be censorship. If you post is ontopic , relevant and has observable and undeniable instances that corroborate and support your argument or opinion then the post should NOT be deleted.

Of course groundless opinions or statements that are NOT corroborated or substantiated with observable instances that are independently verifiable should be deleted as you wish on your self moderated thread.

These types of groundless opinions with no supporting independently verifiable instances or SOLID argument that follows a logical path should be deleted from ANY post and the poster should have 3 strikes then get a warning.

The entire board is crushed to a super sub optimal levels by this bogus posting of ill thought out self serving politically motivated garbage.