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I recently had several posts supressed, and deservedly so. I'm not calling for less moderation (in fact, I think there should be more, but that's not the point of this request). I would like to request when that when moderation does occur, a note be placed someplace in the thread. Without such notification, context is lost, opening the rest of the thread is open to misinterpretation. At worst, the meaning of other, unmoderated posts can be lost or changed. As a result, the usability of the board for its intended purpose (a tool to facilitate discussion) risks being greatly reduced.
Thank you.
I recently had several posts supressed, and deservedly so. I'm not calling for less moderation (in fact, I think there should be more, but that's not the point of this request). I would like to request when that when moderation does occur, a note be placed someplace in the thread. Without such notification, context is lost, opening the rest of the thread is open to misinterpretation. At worst, the meaning of other, unmoderated posts can be lost or changed. As a result, the usability of the board for its intended purpose (a tool to facilitate discussion) risks being greatly reduced.
Thank you.
You are correct, sir. Another reason for moderators to leave a note is that it gives them an opportunity to let folks know where the boundary is.
I'll have a word with the suppressor—he's new.
I recently had several posts supressed, and deservedly so. I'm not calling for less moderation (in fact, I think there should be more, but that's not the point of this request). I would like to request when that when moderation does occur, a note be placed someplace in the thread. Without such notification, context is lost, opening the rest of the thread is open to misinterpretation. At worst, the meaning of other, unmoderated posts can be lost or changed. As a result, the usability of the board for its intended purpose (a tool to facilitate discussion) risks being greatly reduced.
Thank you.
You are correct, sir. Another reason for moderators to leave a note is that it gives them an opportunity to let folks know where the boundary is.
I'll have a word with the suppressor—he's new.
Thank you very much. :D
threadjack
What has moderation ever done for us?"Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
I have in the past, at length, ranted about just how little the Romans did and how the Pythons (products of the English private school system and Oxbridge) have propagated a myth that provided intellectual reassurance for the British Empire (perhaps the most patronising and condescending of all empires).
A precis would be: What the Romans really did for us (I speak as a Briton) is kill lots and lots of our people and force us, on pain of death, to fund a decadent and selfish society which rarely taxed its own people at all.
threadjack
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Sigh. Anti-imperialism. There were problems, even in the best of times, with the Roman Empire. Compare it to the other possibilities extant at the time and it looks *really* good though.
Roman taxes weren't all that bad (especially by modern standards). Augustus regularized the system eliminating the abusive "tax farming" system. Diocletian reinstituted land taxes in Italy later IIRC. Everybody paid sales taxes, inheritance taxes, etc. At it's best the empire provided peace, a flourishing commercial system, and an equality under the law that was unheard of in any previous empire. The whole Monty Python "what have they done for us" bit is funny, and rather true. They did a lot. Not a modern welfare state by any means, but they provided more than anyone else in the period for what you paid in taxes. Here's a link to a short article about taxes:
http://www.unrv.com/economy/roman-taxes.php
