To the mods -

I know the question was put to the moderators and not to me, but I'd like to add my banana to the bunch. I'm involved in moderating a few similar ~international~ message boards and have had experience in exactly this type of dilemma before.

It's been my experience that the best way to deal with touchy subjects on public forums is to go the whole nine yards. You either have no censorship whatsoever, or you ban certain touchy topics completely. Otherwise the moderators will tend to almost alwayts offend certain people by playing god when choosing what is and isn't acceptable.

Personally I think censorship sucks. If someone doesn't like what's being said, then they shouldn't continue to read it. As Captain Rick Hunter was told by Admiral Gloval, "If you can't take the heat... get out of the battle." Then again, not everyone thinks like me, so it's a case of either having full censorship or none at all.

My 2 cents. Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go back to my mud hut and continue my sad lurking.
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