Originally posted by scifithinker
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Otherwise there'd be laws against all those "evangelical" people I could hear when I was wondering around on campus when I was in college. I didn't want to hear them but because of "free speech" they had the right to try and get people to listen to them and believe in their version of "religion". Unfortunately so do folks like that "Baptist" church who's members are allowed to protest outside the funerals of military people, among other places they're allowed to protest. Never mind that they're slandering the military individuals and the military as a whole. They're not getting any kind of punishment. So I respectfully disagree with your claim that folks do not have the right to say what they want, when they want.
Yes, Darren or any forum owner does have the right to restrict what can and can't be said on the forums but placing too much restriction (like for example, no criticism of any show or character/actor allowed) will lead to the downfall of the forum. People like to discuss their shows and some of those people like to make constructive criticisms of the show or an actor's choice in how they portrayed their character. If people can't do that and can only praise the show, what's the point? How are people supposed to see the show/actor in a different light if no one is allowed to say "Hey you know in Show X's recent eps I didn't like how CharacterX was behaving. Was it the actor's choice to portray the character like that or were they told to do that by the director? Seeing CharacterX act like a total butthead to CharacterY - when we all know they really like each other as friends - was so very out of character I wonder what is going on." Then how can someone else respond with how and why they think that happened if you can't criticize the show? Supposedly people are only allowed to say "I really enjoyed the eps for this, that and the other reason" and not mention what they didn't like. Boring, imho to just praise a show/actor all the time. Neither will ever learn what's working and what's not if they only hear praise all the time.
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