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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
It looks like I'm rather biased 'cause, if I were a member of said forum, I would welcome people to come in and debate the merits of various cars. I was also assuming the board would make more money with increased traffic but that's just me.
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The board only makes more money with increased traffic if it's selling advertising, which we did not do.
The focus of the board was repair and upgrading of Hondas. It was not "insert-car-here is better than .. "
We were not set up as a car merit debate forum. It was a technical forum.
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If the debates were nothing more than trolls exchanging pejoratives then I'd agree with changing policy (although I'd still keep it if it were making money).
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What you have to realize is that even if you are a for-profit board, if you are a for-profit board that claims to be for people interested in a specific topic, and then you allow a bunch of chuckleheads with nothing better to do to say anything they want, and therefore make it difficult for people to discuss the topic of the board, you will eventually fail.
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No, of course not. I think it's helpful for any advocacy site to have a dissenters' sub-forum, as you call it, to allow critical examination of their core beliefs. Otherwise, it's much easier to fool yourself and fall into self delusion and that's just sad and pathetic.
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It may be sad and pathetic to you, but if it's what they want to discuss, then they have the right to restrict discussion for that. People who don't like it can start their own discussions.
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The TFP doesn't need such a things 'cause it doesn't promote on any one point of view.
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We still have such things. We don't allow spam. We don't allow flames. We don't allow non-conversational threads (i.e. if you post "I like purple" and nothing else, it will get removed). We do have a mission and focus here and posts which detract from it are indeed removed.
It's the same with them - the difference being our mission and focus is not centered on one specific topic, while theirs is.