To respond more accurately to your thoughts specifically, I don’t think Mau Mai is suggesting people not be able to “express whatever they want in the first place.” I’m sure Mau Mai understands there will always be people who break the “rules” even if they are stated, much like in reality. But I think she’s just suggesting that a comment policy be articulated for the good that it will minimally do, which is a reasonable and well-intentioned suggestion.
She is more or less appealing to everyone to be more mindful of themselves, and adhere to the unspoken social rules we usually have offline in real life. You and I both know there are a lot of people here posting stuff they’d never say in the real world when they can’t hide behind a keyboard.

I also know you don’t honestly and completely adhere to the “anything goes on the internet” mantra, and that it doesn’t cause “direct damage”. Remember your arguments about the teen beating videos that were posted on chinaSMACK?

YOU’RE ONE TO TALK. If it is possible to search and match, it shan’t be too hard to find how many times fcuk and panty twisting can be associated with your name which is the point Mao Mai was trying to make.

Anyway, I agree with Rick. You should have at least noticed that when replying to Mao Mai, Rick had done a fair bit of self-moderation in his choice of words. It’s pathetic that you don’t seem to know when a post is meant for trolls, and when serious feedbacks are invited. Your trolling here is wasting everybody’s time.

@Terry
Those posters/flamers are employees paid to troll, to give life to chinasmack. Take those away, chinasmack is nothing but Chinese gossips translated for the benefit of non-Chinese speaking laowais. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody’s got to pay for it, and it’s the advertisers, eh? And advertisers are interested only in sites with high numbers of viewers.

Creating a public forum which allows people to post, however, is creating a medium for which people can say what they want. Sure, moderators can remove posts and … eh, moderate discussions, but that doesn’t mean people are not able to *express whatever they want in the first place*.

smickno is only bringing up the issue as moral blackmail in hopes others here will accept and defend his behavior. I highly doubt Fauna is going to buy it.

So you got it? I said half a bucket of shit, and Rick is looking for a whole bucket.