picaroon

Please feel free to critique below in any way you want. Feel free to share your own passion for moderating content or your feelings about what it does in censoring what you truly want to express. Please note that I believe that we should act with compassion and kindness towards others, not an idea necessarily expressed in below.

"It is good to be ridiculous and answer things for what they are, and if it calls for it as it often does, not in the literal sense. It is also good to give people the benefit of the doubt who believe that trying to control things on the surface level rightly moderates our sense of what we ought to believe is right and wrong. The seriousness that we associate with such moderation is a learned traight. I'm not saying the act of moderating in itself is right or wrong. I'm just saying not to take things personally when others don't understand your ridiculousness, your underlying message, your true intention, etc... It is only ego-based to attach to the idea that something is personally taken from you when someone else deletes it. It doesn't mean you have to conform. It may mean you have to find a creative outlet somewhere else that doesn't limit your expression of what you want to put out into the world."

The question "Why do people take things so seriously on this site?" with details about moderation on the internet, ceased to exist before I had the chance to answer the question, so I copied and pasted it for whoever has the pleasure of seeing it.

A highly trained nanny or Superman?

This has even found its way into more reputable sites. It's like we've all just given up.

The sense that others are so easily influenced, does this make you weary of the information of the internet in and of itself? I once thought of the ancient peoples doing things erroneously to mess with future generations... 1000 years from now, they will be so confused.

Not because we want to hurt others, but because people truly need to learn how to not be offended. Look to the stoics, the teachings of Buddha, the wisdom of great philosophers. It's a very useful skill to not take offense in the face of adversity. To forgive, divine. Anyone else seeing what's been going on and have thoughts as it's gradually progressed to this point? Or perhaps you can distill some wisdom on the other side of the coin? Please answer below your thoughts, opinions, and universal truths. Just no getting offended.