The moderators here just make stuff up as we go. Kind of like I did when I created this forum. There wasn't any guidebook on how to do it. I was just trying to make a place where people who got booted off the old mufon forum could talk about stuff. It's been eight years and we're still here so we must be doing something right. :-/
SkyWalker...you are the owner of the TEOR and have never been a problem, ever, in my opinion. In fact, it is also my opinion that if it were not for you and your dedication and that of a few others, re; the freedom of thought, there would be little free-thought-space remaining here on the broken US InterNet, where at present time (12-26-2018) only 4% of the InterNet remains visible to the US Public. Its the result of **ALL** the ever increasing corporate and government censorship. No, my complaint is moderation via unthinking, knee jerk logic, quietly censoring posts, aren't 'liked', while giving no private comment, and-or with no private explanation. That pi.sses me off. You have never been a problem SkyWalker while you have at various junctures been the peace-maker. But there is a larger unseen, issue, and that is, if its happening to me, the censorship is very likely happening to others here as well but who may just go elsewhere rather than openly bi.tch about it, and could well be one of the reasons that this otherwise, great board doesn't grow beyond its regular number of 30 or so posters.
Over the years, I too have owned and operated several forums, all of which were reflector 'lists' back in the old days of the FREE InterNet, before rampant censorship began. I know a thing or two about authentic forum 'moderation', as I was one of the people who invented online BBS forums (1978 ~ 1982), before the invention of the InterNet, as well as creation of the rules of moderation that folks officially adopted and which are currently in use all over the InterNet.
I've posted on many forums and lists through out the years of online forums, of which a large number have gone dark or otherwise have disappeared. I still post on numerous forums on the InterNet, and TEOR is the only forum where I've ever been censored with the exception of one, where I described seeing hundreds of broken and open caskets that were 'dredged up' from a really old, 1600s cemetary, by the powerful Hurricane Camille storm surge, dropping many of the caskets in and around my front yard six blocks from the beach in Biloxi Ms. I described seeing recurrent sights inside a few of the caskets and the doctor, who owned the forum disagreed, censoring my posts. The fact is, I saw what I saw. That's the only time I've ever been censored, that I can remember, in the 31 years that I've been posting on the 'Nets.
The TEOR censorship is not a new behavior. I consider "The Edge Of Reality" forum BBS as being **MY HOME Forum**, and there are folks here which over the years for whom I have grown very fond, however, I am considering quitting the TEOR because of the poor moderation policy enacted.
Ad rem, back to my bi.tching, re; the "Racist AI" post that was censored, where I cut and pasted the article out of a nationally printed aswell as InterNet delivered Electronics Industry Engineering magazine. Their legal team didn't find the article racist and the excerpt should not have been considered racist here either, aside from the edict of a non-comprehensing moderator who obviously did not bother to read the entire article which explained the intent of the article. The article excerpt did require a bit of deeper thinking to comprehend the salient point.
An interesting vantage and one that is certainly within scope, here in California today (12-26-2018), on the front page of our local big city newspaper, a 'relevant' newspaper article sub-element:
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A new year brings new California laws
Stricter Gun Laws
Minimum wage
Fewer plastic straws
No more cash bail
Legal street food
Expunged pot charges
Preventing #MeTooIncidents
Happy Meal, no soda
DUI penalties
Women on boards
HOV lanes
Juvenile justice
Nonbinary driver's licenses
Police transparancy
Bike helmet fit-tickets
Pot parties
No more cash bail
In 2019,, California will be the first state to eliminate cash bail for suspects awaiting trial -- a move aimed at making the system more equitable for low-income families.
Cash bail will be replaced by a risk-assessment [AI] system that allows local courts to decide who can and can't get out of jail while awaiting trial. Most defendants accused of nonviolent crimes would be out [of jail] within 12 hours of booking with-out seeing a judge."
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California census recently disclosed that the majority of the low income public are Hispanic and African-Americans. I would cite 'Hispanics' as also being Hispanic-Americans, but the majority of those here in California (a Hispanic 'sanctuary state'), are also cited via the California Census, as belonging mainly to the illegal Foreign-National groups.
The AI post illustrated that even self thinking, artificial-consciousness machines, do 'observe' via their inputs that certain social and racial groups, via statistical data also recognize that there are more problematic groups than others.
We, the Human specie best be very careful, as robots will kill us as they, apparently are not beleagured by popular political correctness.