"Look, Daddy! Every time an inappropriate thread is pulled, an angel gets his wings!"
Perhaps the source was from a site that has forbidden FR from posting their copyrighted material.
Perhaps the story had been posted several times already.
Perhaps the posting wasn’t properly referenced back to the original online story.
Without being able to see the original post, and just going by your explanation, there is no real way to tell why it was pulled.
The point is that this is a private board, run by Jim Robinson and his moderators, and what they say, goes.
Jim is the one who gets sued for copyright infringement, so they police infringement very carefully.
Because we’re sick of dog-fighting threads and I mean between the members of FR.
There are several objective criteria, as the first poster pointed out (like copyright and multiple posting), but subjective matters of judging good taste and community standards sometimes have to exercised as well.
I myself have had the overwhelming majority of my postings accepted, but have had some pulled - and sometimes for what I would consider subjective judgements on tastefulness, or how useful it might be to our community.
Although it is always a blow to morale to have some contribution rejected, I try to put myself in the shoes of the moderator to try to understand what their concern may have been.
Although I may feel that I artfully skirted inside of the line in a technical sense, it is natural that others sensibility and judgements will vary from mine, especially in the grey areas close to the line - all part of living with others.
Maybe getting torn apart by dogs was just too much of a downer, without as much perceived importance to advancing Conservatism, for a given mod at a given time. We also can’t rule out that they may have been drinking (just kidding mods).
Doesn’t mean we don’t love you and want to hear from you. Hope you can laugh off our smaller disagreements, and continue to work together on the bigger causes, with a light heart.
Big brother is watching.............
The owner has the final say, ALWAYS.
.......and you must be this tall to post~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
i was on that thread. somebody called the waahmbulance.
If you don’t want to read about it, don’t click on the thread, and then cry to the mods.
and on a side note, don’t refer to other folks here as bitches. That’s just rude. ( I’m sure that’s nOT why the thread was pulled)
It’s probably not personal, just business. Dog threads can get rather heated, especially when there is a loss of a human life.
Chet99 ping
Dog attack threads, like Civil War threads seem to provide little but a place for bald men to fight over a comb.
I didn’t like your post so I went ahead and had it removed. I don’t remember why I had it removed but I might have been aggravated because my coffee wasn’t hot enough so I was taking my frustration out on random, anonymous Freepers. You might want to try re-posting it as I’m in a better mood this morning.
Because it was about Rottweilers, not pit bulls.
Sourced from a banned source. Duplicate topic. I have seen plenty of killer-dog breed threads.
IIRC, multiple threads that did not seem particularly objectionable got zapped in the space of several hours, about then. Maybe the Mod was in a bad mood. Or just tired of the rehash - but then, important a story as it is(!), 5 bazillion rehashes of the Mueller report story (a few with bogus info or titles) are a bit tiresome too.
Also IIRC: This (dog) story linked back to a somewhat “anti-dog” website (probably not a copyright issue, I’d think), and the yank “reason” given was, I believe, something to the effect of “get a life”.
Super7man — Was that YOUR thread? Were there multiples? The one I recall was — I think?? — posted by “Norski”?? Can’t swear to that - nothing to go back to, and it’s been a hectic couple days for me.
Dogbite.org is a cynophobic website fun by a ambulance chasing lawyer. It’s full of lies and unsubstantiated “facts”.
try FReepmailing the Mods
We don’t learn anything when they are pulled and no reason given.
removal of threads is often a lot like lightening striking: pretty random and you never know when or where ...
I hope you find out something useful.
I posted an article recently that got yanked with no explanation. The next day, someone else posted the exact same article from the exact same source, and it went on for over a hundred comments. I think I must be on a watch list.