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In lugnet.lego.direct, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Duane Hess writes:
> > Todd, as the big kahuna, has the right to censor messages at his discretion
> > since LUGNET IS afterall, his site. He's done it before, he's done it in
> > this case and I'm sure he'll have to do it again. It's in the best interest
> > of the LUGNET/TLC relationship.
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> Whoa whoa whoa! Watch what you say, please.
>
> For the record, I have *NEVER* censored a message here and never will.
>
> Any message I have ever removed has been under one of four cases:
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> 1. Someone is unable to cancel their own message for whatever reason and
> specifically requests that it be admin-canceled, and gives the message
> URL or quotes the message in a reply asking that it be cancelled --
> leaving nothing up to interpretation. This has happened about 10 or 20
> times in the past 2 years.
>
> 2. By request from LEGO, as just happened yesterday, on legal grounds.
>
> 3. Someone accidentally posts two exact copies of the same message to a
> group. If I happen to notice a pair of messages like this, I do a 'diff'
> and verify that they are identical, and remove the latter. I do this by
> hand because I haven't put in an automated way to do it. This isn't
> censorship because it's a purely technical process which corrects for a
> purely technical -- it's currently too easy to accidentally click the
> "Post Message" button twice on the same message in the web interface.
>
> 4. And of course, as a regular user, I have canceled a few of my own
> messages containing typos and replaced them with newer versions.
>
> Please note that asking someone to consider voluntarily cancel their own
> message (I think this has only happened twice), with an explanation as to why,
> is very very very different from censoring.
>
> --Todd
<sheepish>
Um... OK... I didn't mean that the way it sounded. :-|
</sheepish>
-Duane
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| (...) Whoa whoa whoa! Watch what you say, please. For the record, I have *NEVER* censored a message here and never will. Any message I have ever removed has been under one of four cases: 1. Someone is unable to cancel their own message for whatever (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.general)
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