response to the response to "unmasked will not air"

[DerekPowers]

i'll keep this short. i truely agree w/ both poekeats and maxie zeus. to be honest, i wouldnt even want unmasked to air now, i live in nyc and this is pretty much all consuming for me and my school. it is terrible. i was alittle surprised at how the events were trivialized in the "unmasked will not air" thread, but i understand where everyone was coming from and know they meant it w/ no disrespect. i was surprised at poekeats harsh comments, but i am even more surprised that the thread was closed and at how harshly Maxie Zeus scolded poekeats. Poekeats is entitled to his opinion, even if it is expressed tactlessly, and i do not understand the reasoning behind closing the thread. i guess that in such times i am feeling very patriotic and dont like to see any kind of censorship quiet our freedom of speech, and i truely feel that poekeats comments werent so upsetting that the post should have been closed. that was definately a valid concern of his or hers, and a thread that could help us all learn a thing or two and discuss these horrible events in a really honest way, since obviously we are all human and are subject to being slightly insensitive from time to time. thank you and peace.

[Maxie Zeus]

The post was harsh and inflammatory, came close to being a personal attack upon certain persons, and was grotesquely insulting toward the membership of these boards. It was flamebait, and that was why I closed it. With emotion running high around here, I calculated that we couldn't afford to have something as nasty as that as an open target.

As for the "censorship" charge: How can it be censorship if I left the post itself up, unedited and unchanged? I did not close any of the other threads about "Unmasked" being unaired; those who wish to express themselves on the issue are free to do so, as long as they keep a civil tone. Closing poekeat's thread merely prevents others from responding directly to poekeats, not from replying to other posts making the same point in less abusive language.

I must also remind you that publically challenging a mod's decisions and actions is a serious violation of the board rules. If you do not like a mod's actions take it up in PMs or email. And because these decisions are not fodder for public discussion, I am locking this thread as well.