Attn: Sihing 73 Re: Your Edit Privileges
Hi there.
I was just reading XINDU's ridiculous "Yip Man hid stuff from people" thread" and was about to simply close it when I noticed that YOU edited his last post.
I commend the fact that you told the forum what you did and why (much better than the simple "last edited by:" thing in every edited thread,) but I was a bit disturbed to see the same thing done to one of XINDU's other posts without any explanation.
It would be nice if, when you censor a post, that you perhaps do the equivalent of "blacklining," ie replace what you took out with a ****** of equal length or a **swear removed** or **name removed by Sihing73** or something like that. That way, it lets the rest of us in the forum know what was changed and reassures us that nothing MORE than that was done to the post.
It is unfortunate that censorship is perceived as a necessity within the Wing Chun forum, and sometimes even the culture. I do understand the need to keep the peace in an environment where two or more camps are claiming to have the only "complete" Wing Chun, but I hope that you and your colleagues will find a way to foster peaceful discussion without resorting to post editing. Maybe make a specific "flame dump" where any and all flame messages are not edited, but simply dumped into the same thread.
There are plenty of ways to do this without editing someone's ideas, even if those ideas are stupid and inflammatory. Plus, the karmic retribution would be oh so clearer if the world was allowed to see the true nature of their posts.
Best of luck in coming up with a solution,
CSP
"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own." -Cicero