Why is the word "******" censored?

Censors are apparently a little more strict here than on other car forums. At least in some cases. I saw some really grotesque pictures of a teenage girl with "head trauma" from a Porsche crash here, that were not posted elsewhere. Other sites have a lot more risque content though.

 

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Did a Mod delete my post in this thread? Why? I think I was after post #12 at 4:31am.

All it said was that I noticed on the Fchat.com/forum front page it didn't sensor the name when showing the latest thread to get a post.

I also had an attachment, will this post get deleted too?
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Thats not fair for there to be 2 different threads on *******.com websites. I got confused, my original post is from the other thread that i was talking about.

Now i can rest

 

Cool. What else can I tell you to do?

I understand about the IMG tags.. I just leave them on my board because the amount of porn that gets posted there would give my server a heart-attack if it had to process each 1200x1400 image everytime someone loaded a page.

 

Way too early for that kind of mental imagery. Thanks.

 

I understand blocking curses. And I understand deleting threads that blatantly advertise competition. And I understand banning users who continually circumvent those rules.

But why block the words associated with competition...? And how is eCirkit.com competition...?

 

Would you place a billboard on the front of your building advertising the competition? I certainly would not. Would Ford Motor Company put GM car flyers in its lobby? Would GE slip Philips Light Bulb ads in its annual stockholder reports? How about this one? Would your food store give you coupons for a discount at the competition's store? Does ABC run ads for CBS?

[size=+2] OF COURSE NOT![/size]

No different here. Why should Rob let the bandwith he pays for be used to advertise someone who might reduce his viewing audience and thereby lower the number of clicks his sponsors might get.

Tricky devil... circumventing the e*i*k*t.com filter that way.

*******.com is a site for car guys, regular guys, and even (GASP) guys like you and me. So far I'm mostly confused by it, but perhaps my ancient addled brain just doesn't get it. Why is it competition? Gotta ask Rob that one. Maybe it's not so much that it's competition, maybe it's that it's been pushed pretty hard here. PERHAPS if you were a sponsor here...

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Not only are you absolutely welcome to come to eCirkit, but you can spend all your time there promoting FerrariChat. We're not competing with you and you're not competing with us. We are two completely different species. I completely understand how you feel - and what many are reiterating - concerning promoting competition on here. But we're not competition. We're not a forum devoted to Ferraris; we're a multi-level networking website devoted to all things - on a completely different platform. If you're not censoring the word(s) "MySpace", then it doesn't make any sense to me why you'd censor "eCirkit.

 

You Da Man Rob!

 

Rob

IMO ******* is not competition for FCHAT. Ecrikit is a Garage/MySpace for cars. Many of the threads about my cars on FCHAT are linked from ******* to FCHAT and as that site got over 1 million hits yesterday I think if anything it drives traffic to FCHAT. It's like linking Pininfarina's web site which also links back to FCHAT.

I emailed you about my sig. which I changed from a link and asked if that was alright but never received a response from you. If you want it changed/removed I will just let me know. I think that FCHAT stands on it's own and will continue to for a long time.

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As an aside I think the software has a glitch. Note how it's allowed and ****
in same post???

 

Jim, as someone who spends a fair bit of time actually working on social media programs, I disagree. I'm not taking Rob's side here. The reality is that any 'social', 'networking' or 'community' site is competing with f-chat in some way, shape or form. These types of sites are one of the biggest trends in the web world at the moment--and there's really only a finite amount of traffic (and ad dollars) to go around in niches like f-chat, et al.

 

Your point about add dollars could be true but I think both sites appeal to different sponsors.

 

e Cirkit becomes an FChat sponsor.

Rob allows linking.

Everyone is happy.

 

I wouldn't say they won't go down fighting...

 

+1

Or maybe they can work out a cross promotion partnership?