Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
ACL,
If an "leader" is going to take a policy position, they should stand by that decision. Being offensive via PM is really no different than being offensive in public. In a position of leadership, EVERYTHING is in public. That is common sense.
What you posted is not what members agreed to when they signed up with APC. "Additional considerations" which were not in the TOS are now posted with the "rules." Which is it?
Pretty hard to debate if the rules change as fast as you, and I, can type.
The catch all is that the Admins and Mods can do and edit what they want with no recourse. Period. That is something we all agreed to on day one. In fact that is there to protect us as much as them.
It allows me to delete copyrighted e-mails and items that are violating the TOS without any red tape. Like it or not, it is a catch-all and it has been in there since APC's inception.
The issue of PM's has been a practice that the mods have upheld. If someone does not mind a PM being posted that has been allowed, but generally they are Private hence the name. I understand your angst wrt to Clee and him being the Site Admin, but for now the same practice stands. The mods and admins saw your posts, and the issue is being once again discussed on the Mod boards.