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[MaggieL]

Originally posted by sycamore

We generally rely on UT to enforce rule 3, and I personally think he's handled that well. But...who's to say that he's necessarily right? Who's to say that Dave enforcing it is necessarily a bad thing? Who's to say that Maggie's behavior or Dave's or mine or UT's isn't "egregiously bad?"

Well, for as long as I've been here, it's been Tony's call. And as I said earlier, I've liked how that worked. "Who's to say" is basically Tony, it being his effort that makes the Cellar happen; this is the "LIttle Red Hen" principle. T'was ever thus.

Now he's delgating that role....which, being the Little Red Hen, is indeed his call. I think it will make the Cellar less like what it was and more like everything else that's out there. Just my opinion.

I still think that the Cellar is a champion of free speech; however, I am keenly aware that there are absolutes to free speech, whether there should be or not. And those absolutes can and will vary.

Um...variable absolutes? "Limits", maybe?

"Intolerably irritating" is indeed variable...and ignore lists were created here to allow for that variability of irritability. Some more irritable folks use them a lot. For others that's not enough; beyond not listening to those they don't like, they want the people they don't like silenced so *none* will hear them, and if they had the tools would make their entire domains invisible to the unpersons.

The Cellar, which had been under a single management, will now have several zones, each with it's own governance. Rather like laws varying between states; what is forbidden in New Jersey or California may be "legal as church on Sunday" in Pennsylvania. Essentially what was one blog is now multiple co-hosted fora.

Now we'll get to see what the results will be over the coming months.