This is one of the more bizarre moderation I have received from CARM.. It's by no means the first, but just about the most bizarre. Let's examine.. I'm responding to Catherine Aurelia.. You can find more about her here..
Rule 6 PG Discussions.
CARM wants to keep the forums on a PG level.. Yet nothing in my response is anything but PG.
Rule 25: No blasphemy/insulting remarks about Christianity.
My response is specifically addressed to Anti-Mormons, not Christiantiy.. So no blasphemy or insults on Christianity..
Rule 29:B, No links to offensive material, No links to articles with discussion or comments
As one can see, my comments have NO Links at all, let alone offensive material.
41: Vocabulary: No vulgarities, obscenities, profanity, or swearing. The filter will block certain words. If a word is blocked in your posting, please edit to include a more appropriate word. Posting spaces, characters that leave the impression or meaning of profanity are still considered a rule violation
This really is bizarre, there is NO vulgarities in the post.. My only guess is that the CARM Moderation is a few pints short of a six pack when it comes to the meaning of some words like "Flagrant".. which means to be brazen or shameless.
I think its worthy to point out their Rule 3.1 which states..
Matt Slick and Diane S. or administrators reserve the right to alter the board rules at any time necessary to administrating the forums and maintaining peace on the discussion boards. Admins do have responsibility to dealing with management issues and may have reason to use different rules than the forum guests.
Overall I think this just serves to prove that CARM has NO Rules as Matt, Diane or Carm administrators may have reason to USE DIFFERENT RULES than the guests and can CHANGE rules at any time.. Which means at their whim. So even if you study their rules and try to adhere, they can just not like you and change the rules for no reason other than they don't like what you say.. Which is often, they simply can't handle truth.
I think what's going on here is CARM forums are dying a slow death.. the Post/View raitios barely keep up with the number of posters in a given discussion. Every post counts as a view, every edit to a post counts as a view. The post/view rations seems to suggest that only the few that are engaged in the dialog are actually viewing the posts of each other. There seems to be no more than a dozen participants on the site anymore, the same names that have been there for 10 years...
So as more and more people are becoming aware of the bigotry of CARM, less and less are stopping by and that decline is scaring them.. They depend on donations.
I think what's going on here is CARM forums are dying a slow death.. the Post/View raitios barely keep up with the number of posters in a given discussion. Every post counts as a view, every edit to a post counts as a view. The post/view rations seems to suggest that only the few that are engaged in the dialog are actually viewing the posts of each other. There seems to be no more than a dozen participants on the site anymore, the same names that have been there for 10 years...
So as more and more people are becoming aware of the bigotry of CARM, less and less are stopping by and that decline is scaring them.. They depend on donations.
