<sigh>
Sorry, Labrat - I took your suggestion as a form of censorship, which I'm now not absolutely certain it was.
Okay, now I'm baffled. I cannot see how you could think it was censorship, Carol, at any point, since I made it perfectly clear from the outset that those who were wanting to post on subjects other than Obama's win had several other threads on the forum where they could do that. It takes a very strange brand of logic to hear censorship out of "you're very welcome to talk about this elsewhere on the forum, just not here...".
Perhaps there's an easy way out of this issue in the future? People starting a thread could indicate that we wish to limit discussion to one part only of their post. e.g. Wendy could have said she wanted people to comment *only* on the importance of Obama's election for the Civil Rights Movement. ?
They could do. If they particularly wanted to. Or thought that some members might have a problem recognising what the thread topic was. Entirely up to them, I guess. Once again, though, Wendy seems to have made it entirely clear what her intentions were:
Yeah, CapeFetish, that's exactly what this thread is about, as I saw it when I started it: a celebration of a milestone in history,
I won't quibble with you over what you interpreted her intentions to be or when you read her various clarifications of her intentions...or whatever. I'm not sure why you feel these are important points to nail down. They make no difference to me, nor have any bearing on my point which was pinning the topic of the thread down and eliminating those elements not on topic. What is important is that you respect her intentions now that you know what they were.
Now, I'm extremely busy with Archive stuff today, so this will be my last post on this one. I think I've made my position clear and I just don't have time to go around in ever decreasing circles on the subject.
LabRat
