I had resigned from CiF but noticed that both MontanaWildhack and 13thDukeofWybourne had popped back to make a parting shot after the WADDYA thread had descended into a type of striptease tableau in which the editors and moderators finally stood around in the nakedness of their own idiocy.
I was going to post what follows, but found that I have now been banned. So I couldn't.
Since both 13thDukeofWybourne and MontanaWildhack have come back to make comments about the circus which CiF has become, I will allow myself the same privilege.
The point is that it is now clear for everyone to see that the moderation exercised in practice has no relationship to the stated policy.
It is also clear that there is an ideological stance which is maintained by deleting and censoring anyone who does not toe the line.
There may be enough people who will keep commenting on CiF who are not bothered about principles - or as flexible about how one principle can be subverted to accommodate another - as the editorial and moderation teams.
Perhaps, though, this episode will make some of the people who thought that others who made an issue of moderation were simply grizzling because they had been deleted (fairly, of course, in their eyes) wonder whether a site which would proclaim the value of freedom of speech in one breath while gagging those who seek to exercise it in another is really something of which to be a part.
I do not want to be soiled by being associated with a site like this or with people who cannot see the squalor of the moral quagmire into which they jump when they give it tacit approval by fostering it and aiding and abetting its filthy intentions.
If there is a full, open and honest debate which allows the people below the line who contribute free content to discuss how moderation and ideology should operate, I will reconsider this matter.
Otherwise, I want no part of a site which can so proudly and idiotically parade its moral slovenliness and contempt for its users.
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