I appologize for your feeling neglected, it is purely unintentional. I am sure
But as mentioned by broomer and the other members, sometimes we just don;t know the reason or answer
As mods, we spend a lot of time policing and looking for problems, often times questions may go unanaswered. I knwo, when I come on, I first check in, then look to see what is going on. then, I will skim through alot of posts looking for unanswered questions or ones and see if I can help, If not, i will generally wait and see if someone else may get to it. Than, I look through looking for problems or potential problems, Which YES does include deleting certain content. There is no censorship here, but the rules are simple and should be followed. Although some do not post thinking they are offensive or violating rules, it does happen.
the rules are:
no flaming
no soliciting
no uncooth behavior
and no advertising other online stores or bb's
now, we are somewhat lax on some things, maybe a bb linked was to a specialty site for a reason(sometimes it will be left to slide, but not often), or same with a store PROVIDING that store does not compete with swf.com. And or if a store looks to be like they are advertising(even if not competition), using this webspace for free ads.
Now, let us remember, this is a free site sponsored by swf.com, if for no other reason than pure respect for our sponsors, we should be able to follow these rules, without them even being rules. With that said, most posts do not get deleted or edited unless one of these things occur, Sometimes we will also delete whole threads, if it appears that one of these threads or posts is going in that direction, BUT they are generaly monitored for a bit first and then if posts start showing signs then get deleted.
Like I said though, even if they were not rules, why would we not be able to offer these out of pure respect, it is their house, which they allow us to use. Would you go to your brothers house(who owns an extravagant restaruant), hold a meeting about cuisine and tell all his guests to go to olive garden instead, or post a sign outside his house saying, look at red lobster, before stopping here?
With that said, I think the very little bit of censorship as you call it is more than reasonable. But, we would rather refer to it as just enforcing the rules, rules which we all agree to upon joining, rules which IMO are very fair, rules that IMO should not have to be enforced to start with.
