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BorkBorkGoesTheCode

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Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« on: September 17, 2016, 12:49:01 pm »
Have any of you experienced it personally? My political post just disappeared.
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Re: Internet censorship
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2016, 12:50:55 pm »
The Toad erases posts considered inflammatory or sometimes in the middle of a lot of inflammatory posts.
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Re: Internet censorship
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2016, 12:52:18 pm »
It's not Toady doing it. Does this forum have a "block all posts to x thread for x amount of time" option?
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2016, 01:24:44 pm »
As far as I am aware the only post control tools SMF has are moderator tools and thread locking. Are you sure it wasn't a software glitch or a connection drop? Happens to me every once in a while.
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2016, 02:03:18 pm »
... technically, they haven't, because they can't. The only one able to delete posts is toady :V Or maybe threetoe or the unseen one, I'unno.

Folks have edited their posts to be empty, though, sure, or asked boss toad to delete 'em.
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2016, 09:11:57 pm »
The only time I've had posts of mine disappear is when I either asked for it to be deleted or it got caught in the middle of a bunch of inflammatory posts that Toady One deleted.
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2016, 09:23:54 pm »
Quote from: Covenant on September 17, 2016, 09:08:49 pm
'The unseen one'?
K... something or other. Kurtlemak? Definitely a misspelling, but somewhere along those lines.
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2016, 10:59:16 pm »
Quote from: Arx on September 17, 2016, 01:24:44 pm
As far as I am aware the only post control tools SMF has are moderator tools and thread locking. Are you sure it wasn't a software glitch or a connection drop? Happens to me every once in a while.
I am not sure. It may be pattern-recognition, but it is weird that it happened to my political posts. This isn't the first time it happened.

Quote from: Ispil on September 17, 2016, 01:41:02 pm
I think he's asking if anyone ever deleted an entire post in self-moderation.
Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2016, 11:14:16 pm »
Quote from: Ispil on September 17, 2016, 11:03:49 pm
Ah.

My money's on the posts were deleted when deleting an argument; yours just got caught up in the mess.

Yeah, unless it's one or two posts, he generally just deletes a chunk and tends not to surgically excise the offending posts.
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Re: Internet censorship, or why was prior restraint applied to my posts
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2016, 08:14:01 pm »
Kurtulmak exists.

But, yeah, Toady generally says (moderated) if he wipes something IIRC?

Unless he's mass-deleting.
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