Bliss?

On Feb 23, arbeit wrote:

It does not matter what you say, do or think there will be always a person to find it wrong.





Sanitization alone will apparently not help to solve all the problems:

http://www.proz.com/?sp=bb/viewtopic&forum_id=30&topic_id=8848



Perhaps common sense and moderation would? One way of keeping those alive is talking, not gagging. ▲ Collapse

On 2003-02-24 08:26, jacek wrote:

whether one wants to allow discussion or not within an organisation is a business decision the owner is always free to make.





We all know why last winter tensions started running high and the ProZ

no-politics rule started being enforced, i.e. forum threads of \"forbidden\" nature were blocked or deleted. But while it is fair to start implementing a rule, to apply it retroactively is a whole different story. What recently shocked me was that someone actually had taken the time to dig in the ProZ archives and sanitize past discussions there too. Try to view the following discussion I referred to at the beginning of this thread:

http://www.proz.com/index.php3?sp=bb/viewtopic&mode=viewtopic&topic_id=5009&. It had NOT been considered subversive last fall and was quietly, in peace and order, sitting undisturbed and forgotten since then, buried under layers of hundreds of new topics on the Spanish forum. Until after I mentioned it here last February. No, my friends, you do not go around libraries deleting the word A from their holdings only because you have decided to call it B from now on.



Which brings me to the following conclusion: One can build a database, such

as KudoZ or Resources Forum, provided that they are owned by a predictable corporation. What happened with the retroactive cleansing of the Forum archives was that it jeopardized that predictability. In other words, I no

longer have certainty that my KudoZ entries, for instance, will not be found

one day to be politically incorrect and some obtuse and overzealous censor will not decide to revise this time Glossary archives in another round of purges.

Under the circumstances, I have decided to remove my profile from ProZ as I cannot be associated with an unpredictable venture where rules are enforced retroactively and even the archives purged. No memory, no past--no membership. This is, of course, a matter of principle and not of any crusade. I will think which charity the partial refund of my Platinum should go to.



Hope to see again some of you in the real world or on other websites,



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