What is the purpose of a discussion board?

Given all the banning and word censoring and other strange things that are happening on the PinkTruth.com discussion board, I’ve been wondering…

What is the purpose of a discussion board?

That may seem like a strange question at first. Naturally, one would think that a person starts and maintains a discussion board so those with common interests can come together and discuss.

It would seem, however, that in the hands of a controlling person, a discussion board becomes just another vehicle with which to manipulate content and establish arbitrary rules.

What are your thoughts on this? Why do you participate in discussion boards online?

Have you been a member of a board and left because of certain behavior by the administrator (or lack of action?)

Should the administrator of a discussion board feel free to delete posts or otherwise edit content even if it isn’t vulgar, spam, or against published board guidelines?

I’d like your thoughts on this.

Published in:  on June 6, 2007 at 7:54 am Comments (10)

Those banned members still remain

On the bottom of the Pink Truth discussion board is a box that shows the stats for the board.

This reports the number of posts as well as the number of members.

What it DOESN’T tell you is that the dozens of banned members are included in the total membership number.

That’s right: apparently you can get banned yet still counted as a “member.”

So you’re a member of something you aren’t allowed to be a member of.

Well, that’s one way to increase the membership numbers on your forum!

Published in:  on May 24, 2007 at 7:22 pm Comments (4)