I thought that you were going to ignore that part, and yeah, I posted my reaction towards noticing that you had linked to a self-moderated thread and I questioned how that could be considered to be a reliable place to get information or to participate.  Like I said, I don't tend to participate in those kinds of threads for the reasons that I had already stated unless the thread might fit certain kinds of exceptions in terms of some kind of need for self-moderation.


This thread is not self-moderated, and I did see that there is at least one thread that nullius had created about you, so yeah, I would not consider any kind of self-moderated thread to be allowing of divergent ideas, so we have to take the information that is presented in those kinds of threads with a BIG ASS grain of salt, especially if they presenting potentially controversial ideas and we surely cannot consider them to be allowing for dialogue on the topic.



I am the one that expressed disapproval of your use of a self-moderated thread on the topic, and I suppose that it would be a double standard if nullius would express disapproval of your use of a self-moderated topic, unless he is saying that he created his because you created yours, so in that case, maybe the situation might be more complicated, and I might need to either walk back my comments or reconsider my position.   


I had seen that some other members have used self-moderated threads, and with Lauda, I could see a purpose for using such thread when she has been attacked for so many years... so yeah, maybe if you are having trouble getting your position out there, then there could be some use for the self-moderated thread, and I doubt that you should feel that you are having troubles getting out your ideas or that you need to have control over such a thread... but hey, maybe you will get me to come around regarding a presumed need to have made your particular thread "self-moderated."


Would it be appropriate for me to ask which thread is that?


Apparently the forum rules allow them, and maybe the prevalence of such threads are greater than I had thought.  I try to avoid such threads or to really take into account whether I trust the moderator to NOT be deleting comments willy nilly.  I have experienced some of my posts being deleted in such threads in the past, so I have really bad feelings about them.. so I suppose that it should be known that many times when such self-moderated threads are being used then the starter of such thread is only going to be moderately tolerant of posts that challenge some of the premises or the viewpoints that they starter of the thread wants to emphasize.   


Maybe I should be less shocked about the whole idea?  I suppose that in your OP you could attempt to describe your moderation approach.... so maybe I had categorically judged you too harshly.. I will give you that.


Fair enough... I suppose that if you have strong ideas, sometimes you want to get them out there, and in principle, I suppose I am coming around to the idea that there could be some purpose in attempting to control the presentation of your message.


I am not completely objective that is for sure, but I try to be somewhat fair in terms of having some standards in how I view things.


Double standards is taking matters further than just merely having viewpoints and standards.  You are saying, again, that I am employing some kinds of double standards because I reacted to your having that thread as "self-moderated"?  I will agree that maybe my reaction was a bit strong but it seems that I had already explained some sufficient context for my reaction.