Please Nuke Account and one other - Sousuke

[Brawler7 15]

Please nuke this account and my other account - "Sousuke".

I don't want to be a part of a site that holds the same values as totalitarian regimes like Iran or Saudi Arabia with regards to women and censorship.

Where moderators act like Iranian morality police.

By a nuke request that means full deletion of account and all posts by me and the account "sousuke"

Edited October 1, 2016 by Brawler7

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Wow sad to see you leave

[cyclone27 710]

Forums don't delete accounts they leave big holes in content. Like most forums once you post the content is owned for posterity.

[Ash.1101 1,755]

Sad to see you leave, but this isn't how it works.


Although, as a woman, I don't feel that my gender has at all affected how anyone on this site has treated me or even spoken to me. I'd say it's one of the least sexist forums around.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

It is the moderation and censorship that Members (who post regularly in CEHST forum) are complaining about.

[Brawler7 15]

Forums don't delete accounts they leave big holes in content. Like most forums once you post the content is owned for posterity.

Just an FYI - Nuking and Archiving. You may request removal of Content that you have Posted yourself. In contrast, you agree to resolve directly and exclusively with third parties any disputes you may have about messages that they Posted. In this regard, you understand that VisaJourney does not monitor or control the Content or communications Posted by others, and instead simply provides a service by allowing users to access Content via the Service that has been made publicly available.

Basically, you will still see a user name but no content will exist for the username.

[Brawler7 15]

Sad to see you leave, but this isn't how it works.

Although, as a woman, I don't feel that my gender has at all affected how anyone on this site has treated me or even spoken to me. I'd say it's one of the least sexist forums around.

There has been a policy that slightly undressed men are okay to post photos of but not women. (like bathing suits etc).

The TOS changed a few years ago so that users of other countries where public images of women are banned wouldn't feel uncomfortable using the site.

[elmcitymaven 9,711]

I know you want to leave, and I share all your feelings about this. (Believe me, I never thought a pic I posted of a pair of Juicy Couture sweatpants would be suggestive, but there you go.) But you are one of the most balanced voices we have in CEHST, and you will be greatly missed. I always enjoy reading your analysis, which is invariably even-keeled and well-written.

All that being said, moderation's¹ refusal to have even a modicum of transparency is grating and frankly ridiculous. Why we have to kowtow to an extremely small minority of putative users is beyond any measure of rational thought. I mean, we all know what the demographics are here, and the number of users in countries where a woman in anything but a burkini when it comes to bathing suits (not a joke), or a woman wearing goddamn sweatpants, would be cause for the gnashing of teeth and furious wailing is stupidly, stupidly low.

I'm offended as a woman that images that reflect how my society looks and functions must be removed so that some POS patriarchal, backwater, cultist freakshow passing itself off as a player on the world stage might not have its fee-fees hurt.

Moderation should consider what the morals of this community are as a whole as it actually exists.

/fin

¹There's at least one mod who is much better at explaining these things than others, and thank you for that.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I am surprised and bummed you are wanting to leave as well. I understand moderating is a difficult task, and have seen a lot of things posted stand which defy belief, while seemingly tame posts get nuked and sometimes even heavier handed action gets taken.

If you truly want to go good luck, but take a little time to hopefully reconsider.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

I missed what happened, sorry that I can't comment on why you are upset. But I'd like to point out that having two accounts on VJ is against the TOS and is a bannable offense. So you'll likely get what you are asking for.

Please nuke this account and my other account - "Sousuke".

I don't want to be a part of a site that holds the same values as totalitarian regimes like Iran or Saudi Arabia with regards to women and censorship.

Where moderators act like Iranian morality police.

By a nuke request that means full deletion of account and all posts by me and the account "sousuke"

[Penguin_ie 5,986]

**** Accounts closed per request. This thread is now closed. ******

The Family friendly policy has been established for years now. There are a couple of reasons for it; both to make our members from all over the world with vastly diverse cultures comfortable, and search engine indexing as outlined here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/481545-visajourney-is-a-family-friendly-site-please-post-accordingly/?p=7093803 .

[Captain Ewok 1,857]

All-

I just wanted to chime in and reference the above topic that Penguin linked to. Any larger site these days comes under fire from all sides for content. Striking the right balance is not easy but we work hard to be in line with the posting guidelines of companies like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other major players out there. Doing so allows VisaJourney to operate smoothly online and serve our entire community without running the risk of unforeseen issues.

Broadly speaking, it's in the best interest of the community when we adopt a fair and consistent set of guidelines that are family safe. I understand that there will always be debate on "consistent" when it comes to family safe as that can mean different things to different people. The mods do try hard and we are certainly open to defining things more formally in the TOS or forums if that helps.

The above said, I recognize that many other sites may be more lenient or strict. I know it's not ideal to everyone but the bulk of the population on VisaJourney doesn't expect to see certain types of content on the site. With our multi-cultural user base we try to strike the right balance.