herumtreiber

Today, going through my flist, I came upon this post:

http://stop-plagiarism.livejournal.com/150238.html

I was intrigued that the moderator seemed to take at face value this Audrey's explanations and so I made a post in this tenor (it isn't exactly the same because the post was deleted, I assume by the moderator)

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Where are the links to the offensive comments?

You write about this but don't provide the links.

Allow me to hold my my doubts, after all, in this day and age, when men can pretend to be lesbian bloggers in Syria and elsewhere I tend to be leery of unsupported claims, and I'd like to have a judgement as Salomonic as yours.

After all, Audrey may end up getting an important job, like the German Defense Minister

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I don't think there was anything in the post that merited its deletion. So, my question to the

stop_plagiarism mods and

hoppytoad79 is this: if you don't want different opinions, why don't you flock your posts?

The post was titled:

The Unacceptable Behavior Stops NOW!

And didn't you write this?

Members of this community are expected to be courteous at all times, though not necessarily pleasant.

I will expand on the reasoning for my post.

The mod didn't provide links. To me, the post seemed hearsay. Someone, probably Audrey, told the mod about the harassment and the mod took it at face value. The thing is, if the mod had provided links, the readers could have read the offensive comments and made up their minds as to their provenance.

Another thing, the mod appears quite authoritarian in the post, to wit: Unless you are one of those people, the only place you should be giving your comments and thoughts is here in this community.

So I'm to accept that the mod, in her infinite wisdom, has judged the situation perfectly and I'm supposed to be outraged. Sorry but that doesn't cut it.

The Guardian article I linked to? Turns out that a lesbian blogger said she was arrested in Syria. She had been blogging for months, if not years, and people were very worried about her safety. But the Syrian woman was really a man writing from Edinburgh.

I think it's important to see these comments and judge them by ourselves, not take the divinely inspired word of the mod and follow like automatons, as she earnestly seems to want.

And the deleting part? The mod didn't want to engage in dialogue, which agrees with the authoritarian tone of the post. She could've explained her reasons but chose not to.