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Re: Should AFOL websites keep to themselves?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:05:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy P. Smith wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton wrote:
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Since “murfling” exists only on ONE site that I’m aware of (since Todd made
up the term), this may not be such a hypothetical example
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The word has been adopted by the AFOL community (or some of us anyway) and is
used in a more general sense to refer to the actions of admins or other
personnel of any website. It’s a great word, useful and colorful, and more
descriptive than ‘cancelled’ even if that is technically more correct.
Say somebody posts a link to an eBay auction on BrickLink. If they cancel
their own post, that’s canceling. If a Discussion Mod cancels it, that’s
murfling. There’s not necessarily any judgment about ‘right or wrong’, just
about what’s appropriate for a given site. Links to an auction aren’t the
only thing that will get murfled on BL, for example.
Tim “I’ve been murfled” Smith
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I find it interesting that you describe it this way because murfling was never
meant to be the same as cancelling or deleting a post. The idea is that
questionable posts are visibly separated but still accessible - in essence, a
compromise between the ideal of totally free speech and the practical need for
no cursing on a family site. Somehow murfling got equated with censorship,
which it was never supposed to be (nor is it now).
-Lenny
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| (...) While murfling may not equate to cancelling or deleting a post, I find it hard to comprehend that anyone would not consider it a form of censorship. Though it has not been used widely on LUGNET, and as a result there are few examples of actual (...) (18 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) The word has been adopted by the AFOL community (or some of us anyway) and is used in a more general sense to refer to the actions of admins or other personnel of any website. It's a great word, useful and colorful, and more descriptive than (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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