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by Svperstar 1681 days ago
SomethingAwful forums were NEVER about any kind of free speech. They had stifling censorship that drove a lot of the regulars off the forums for good.
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Yup. Unmoderated forums are a sanctuary and a blessing. I would never have one - I would run a very offensive forum, but not one that annoyed me in any way or else I would brutally censor and crush it.

I honestly think the reason SA was so successful (other than the buy-in) is that the the only criterion for censorship was that you were annoying. That's an arbitrary and unfair criterion, though, so you had better be funny or interesting. It's certainly whatever the opposite of a free-speech zone is.