topic Re: Freedom of Speech and Though in Community Chat

Freedom of Speech and Though

I am still oxox — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:49:59 GMT

Me thinks it does not exist on this board any longer, certian threads keep getting deleated

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

QueenDanceALot — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:51:20 GMT

And threads get pruned.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

JuJu Squeezie — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:51:26 GMT

Nobody here ever promised you freedom of speech.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

brii — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:51:44 GMT

Freedom of speech does not apply to this board. Never has and never will...

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

voyager1980 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:52:56 GMT

It's a privately owned board & freedom of speech doesn't apply. QVC decides what stays & goes

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

biancardi — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:57:34 GMT

The Q boards aren't the government. The First Amendment has nothing to do with the QVC chat boards.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

RainyDayGal — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:58:51 GMT

Private board. Their rules.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

I am still oxox — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:00:17 GMT

Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

QueenDanceALot — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:00:56 GMT

You can think whatever you want.

You just can't type whatever you want here.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

Suhse — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:05:35 GMT

Freedom of Speech, is our right against Government persecution, for expressing dissenting beliefs. Of course it's not quite that simplistic, but, it's the gist of it.

It has nothing to do with a privately owned and administered message forum, or a company deciding what type of community they want to sponsor.

Monitoring does seem inconsistent, at times, but, it's QVC's dime and we can participate or not.

It doesn't bother me at all, and if it bothered me a lot, I would simply choose, Not.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

Mama Mia — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:05:42 GMT

On 7/29/2014 Usedtobeoxox said:
Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

You notice that too.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

I am still oxox — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:08:42 GMT

On 7/29/2014 Mama Mia said:
On 7/29/2014 Usedtobeoxox said:
Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

You notice that too.

mm

is all I have to say

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

voyager1980 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:08:49 GMT

On 7/29/2014 Mama Mia said:
On 7/29/2014 Usedtobeoxox said:
Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

You notice that too.

mm

Posters can hit the button all day long but Webbie decides what to poof. Plus posters have been banned for using the Report too much from what I've read here

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

reese2 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:15:48 GMT

On 7/29/2014 Usedtobeoxox said:
Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

I agree with that, and I think it's happening more and more often. I also don't believe people only report posts due to content, but often the poster.

The bottom line is that we are not the ones who decide which posts are removed and which ones remain.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

Mj12 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:17:04 GMT

On 7/29/2014 reese2 said:
On 7/29/2014 Usedtobeoxox said:
Then it they want it their way have threads and comments scanned before they are posted, I still think some posters hit the Report button way to often

I agree with that, and I think it's happening more and more often. I also don't believe people only report posts due to content, but often the poster.

The bottom line is that we are not the ones who decide which posts are removed and which ones remain.

Yep.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

croemer — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:33:37 GMT

Hey many asked for tighter reigns...and the Q was listening. I knew we should be careful what we wished for. I find some things around here refreshing...some a little repressive.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

AngusandBuddhasMom — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:33:43 GMT

How is this news?

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

~kaIypso~ — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:54:05 GMT

When you're actively posting on a private shopping forum, it is their rules.

With that said.., I believe part of the blame is on too many posters pushing the report button, calling corporate, emotionally sensitive posters who cannot handle opposing views, they start Suggestion Box threads complaining of fellow posters behavior when they don't see their own behavior is questionable as well. Yes, I've kept up reading here and the board is what they aimed for "a policed board." It's now on the verge of boring and the ones who screamed the loudest are all but gone.

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

~kaIypso~ — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:56:27 GMT

On 7/29/2014 croemer said:
Hey many asked for tighter reigns...and the Q was listening. I knew we should be careful what we wished for. I find some things around here refreshing...some a little repressive.

My post #20, Croemer.

"With that said.., I believe part of the blame is on too many posters pushing the report button, calling corporate, emotionally sensitive posters who cannot handle opposing views, they start Suggestion Box threads complaining of fellow posters behavior when they don't see their own behavior is questionable as well. Yes, I've kept up reading here and the board is what they aimed for "a policed board." It's now on the verge of boring and the ones who screamed the loudest are all but gone."

Re: Freedom of Speech and Though

151949 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:06:09 GMT

This board is PRIVATELY owned and when you signed on to it you agreed to follow the rules that were written by the private owner.