Quote from: KingCole on June 15, 2014, 06:44:54 PM

Quote from: xtester on June 15, 2014, 12:09:45 PM

I would like to propose a self-moderated thread again.

I am 100% for free speech, however, free speech does not entail trolling. I'm afraid people misunderstand this because they also misunderstand what freedom means. Freedom entails some kind of self-imposed limitations. We are free in so far as we don't intentionally wrong our neighbor. We simply cannot enter someone's house and kill them or destroy their home and claim we have done it in the name of our freedom. We are not free to do such things and if we do them we have to pay a big price for that. Similarly, with free speech, we are free to express our opinions and thoughts, even disagree and criticize whatever we want but that freedom becomes the seed of destruction when in the name of free speech we allow people to deliberately and intentionally troll and destroy our hard work(without paying any price).

This is not freedom, it looks more like madness and there seems to be a great incentive on the internet for people to do that, because at least for now, they don't have to pay any price for their deeds however dreadful they may be. I am not interested in political correctness, I'm only interested in what is right and what is wrong, and allowing trolls to run free in our "home" seems obviously wrong.

If we have a self-moderated thread it does not mean we will delete every comment which criticizes or disagrees with us. As long as this is done with a minimal degree of decency every discussion is welcomed. But trolling should never be allowed just because the system we use is too dumb to find a way to penalize such behaviour.

So what shall it be fellow Nemsters, right or wrong? Remember, whatever our decision we will be the ones who will suffer the effect or consequence.

xTester,

In principle I am against self-moderation, but in this instance CfA and others are completely manipulating the thread and any reasonable discussion is impossible. He or she is also spreading misinformation and lies to existing stakeholders and new comers seeking information. I would only support self-moderation if the following fail:

1. Report him to the forum moderators based on misleading information including signatures (fraudulent addresses and claims to represent NEM and UP) and changing other peoples text when quoting and his own posts after being quoted.

2. Use our own forums for NEM stakeholders until NEM is officially launched and tradable.

3. If neither of the above are possible or successful then move to self-moderated with an explanation as to why on page 1 of the OP

KC

I agree with you both.....this is not free speech,it's an attempt to clogg up the communication between members. If you can, then before more damage is done ,please delete these idiots.