Q Talk

[Adelina]

Can you please explain when you say a post is "off topic", especially when the thread is a disguised Political or Controversial thread?  It seems that many threads have been started lately which turn out to be of the latter variety - posters trying to disguise and start a controversial discussion, so as to thwart the standards/guidelines, yet those stay but individual posts are deleted for being "off topic".  

[CalminHeart]

This isn't grade school.   People on this forum need to grow thicker skin.  I never could figure out why people got upset if their posts were poofed.  It's just the way it is.  This is Q's site and they can do anything they want with it.

[Adelina]

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@CalminHeart wrote:

This isn't grade school.   People on this forum need to grow thicker skin.  I never could figure out why people got upset if their posts were poofed.  It's just the way it is.  This is Q's site and they can do anything they want with it.

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This was NOT about me and having a post "poofed".  I did NOT have a post "poofed". So please, do not make assumptions.

 I am wanting to know if the moderators take into account the disengenous starting of threads about controversial  or political topics.  I guess this is no different than trolling behavior that attempts to hide under the radar.

And, btw, calling people juvenile doesn't advance the matter either.

[Moonchilde]

Adelina, one guess would be that with a hot-potato, could go at any moment thread, the posts that go off in tangents attacking either a person being discussed (a candidate), or posters attacking each other, would be considered off topic. It might be QVC's subtle way of trying to keep the thread going in a direction least likely to require poofing of the whole thing.

[Reever]

Personally I think the moderators, while good intentioned, have taken the life out of these forums. One of my posts qualified as "host bashing" simply because I did not care for an outfit they were wearing!!! Free speech people!! Its scary where this once great country is heading.

[suzyQ3]

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@Reever wrote:
Personally I think the moderators, while good intentioned, have taken the life out of these forums. One of my posts qualified as "host bashing" simply because I did not care for an outfit they were wearing!!! Free speech people!! Its scary where this once great country is heading.

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Reever, so sorry for your confusion. This is not a national crisis. Your right to free speech ends when you step out of the public arena and enter a private domain.

[Adelina]

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

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@Reever wrote:
Personally I think the moderators, while good intentioned, have taken the life out of these forums. One of my posts qualified as "host bashing" simply because I did not care for an outfit they were wearing!!! Free speech people!! Its scary where this once great country is heading.

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Reever, so sorry for you confusion. This is not a national crisis. Your right to free speech ends when you step out of the public arena and enter a private domain.

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Yes! And even in the public domain there are limits, like speech which incites violence/hatred.

[Poodlelover]

I just don't understand the logic on removal of some posts. I posted something in a reply that I did not think was unkind at all, in fact was  sympathetic I thought and it was removed, yet there is a whole thread on a host talking too fast and some unkind things said and it is still up. Don't get who decides what is fair for free speech and what isn't, but it is their website and forum so will voice my opinion elsewhere. 

[okaywitheasypay]

 " but it is their website "  I think that answers who decides

[debic]

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@Poodlelover wrote:

I just don't understand the logic on removal of some posts. I posted something in a reply that I did not think was unkind at all, in fact was  sympathetic I thought and it was removed, yet there is a whole thread on a host talking too fast and some unkind things said and it is still up. Don't get who decides what is fair for free speech and what isn't, but it is their website and forum so will voice my opinion elsewhere. 

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I'm not sure why some stay open myself, but the host bashing threads always start out ok and people get pretty nasty about it.   I figure it's preventative measures.  Which a lot of boards do.