Drew Watson
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Ok before anyone starts with if it is true or not. Please look past that and just find the humor in it. I was having a down day and that just made it for me.
OK, give me a break. This has nothing to do with fighting soldiers and flag waving. Sheesh.I am sorry if the moderators have a problem with the thread. It was not my intention to offend any one. If this is the general feeling of the moderators and a sence of humor is something that has to be censored than it is a sad day to this forum and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Our vets and present day soldiers have fought long and hard to garantee the rights of freedom of speach and any censorship is a slap in their face.
FWIW
I thought it was hilarious. I have no idea what would have been offensive about it. True or not. (Probably is. The truth is always the strangest!)
Must be a really thin line between moderating and censoring....
..off-color discussion, regardless of how funny it might be, is not appropriate in a family atmosphere. The forum rules are pretty clear about this. When you have text like [what was contained in the OP and] discussions about displaced male body parts]
...then it can be considered off-color, at least by some, and not appropriate for this place.
... please do not post anything on FWW that you wouldn't want to say to your grandmother at Sunday dinner!! ...not something that I would want my 7-year-old granddaughter or Stu's daughters or Tod's son reading. ...
First,
I too found the original post funny. I printed it out for reading by my daughter age 42, granddaughter age 22, wife age (well we won't give that one up), and oldest son age 43.
Drew,
Nobody here has been flogging you. I have yet to see anybody condemn you for putting it here.
What they are saying is they don't believe it's appropriate for this site as outlined in the "rules".
Folks what you place on the internet is open to public viewing UNLESS you have a members only private site with passwords and member accounts. Even those type of sites can be penetrated by a skilled hacker. This site is open to public viewing. That being said, there was material in it that isn't appropriate for young children in my humble opinion. And yes, young children could have access to this site without adult supervision.
The COCs contain the rules that the members here voted on when they established the site. The Moderator team looked at the message and at least majority of them thought it contained innappropriate language or material. Don't take it personally when this happens. It was handled in an appropriate and fair manner. I'll guarrantee there was some really interesting discussions over this thread going on in the Moderators Private forum.
Gee Ken, you sound like you have first hand knowledge of this moderator stuff!