Right. I am going to type this once and will not enter debate on this.
These are primarily a football forum. We let some not football slide in because life gets a bit mental if all you do is live and breath football.
At the same time plenty of journalists and other people visit this forum and find content here. If they find something that could be termed objectionable, that could be used to make a tabloid headline "Yellow Fever welcome our new Insect overlords" then they will not be afraid to use it and the people they will be asking for comment aren't the people hiding behind avatars and usernames on here. It will be the people on the 'about yellow fever' page and who's names are registered with the name Yellow Fever.
Based on this (and there is history in this area) we will sometimes make decisions that people will write off as 'PC gone mad' or censorship, these are private forums and we have the right to manage the content on them. It's clearly something we don't do lightly because in this thread alone there are personal insults to the moderators of these forums and some quite frankly embarrassing generalisations about the people who keep the Fever running that have been left alone.
There are plenty of other forms of Social media where you can debate your political views be they that Stalin sold out to the religious right or that Donald Trump has really helped capture the left wing voters of rural Texas, feel free to take it there.
I don't need to be on the front page of the Herald.
Regards
The Fever's token Elderly White Male.
You created an off-topic sub forum and you have to live with that unless you remove it. If you remove it you are lessening the YF forums as a whole. The whole debate with KH was ugly but necessary and I thought, compared to social media these days, quite balanced and well managed.
This is an issue that a fair few forums have to deal with.The Modding until you stepped in hasn't been the best. Tegal has shown himself to be very capable, other mods not so. He needs some back up from the likes of yourself or put a few other people in place who can be balanced and take the sting out of things.
Mods should not be scared to act but to do so means they have to restrict their postings and their personal views and relationships. They have to be the Ref after all. The trouble with us is that we all know each other.
We have all had times where we have needed a reminder to wind our heads in (Me especially). You are spot on Fortean. I had a classic example myself some years back as a Moderator on the Official QPR Club run Message board. The thread was entitled the "Great Brawl of China" after a friendly between the club and the Chinese national team turned farcical. Fortunately I was on days off and spent 22 hours (12 with my UK based off sider) deleting and banning (3 day bans)anyone and everyone whom made some sort of racial slur or encouraged some sort of act of violence to calm things down. Edit: Here's the news report on my example.
PS: Found it....
This site is quite tolerant for the diverse numbers of people using it. We can all say things in the heat of the moment.