Just as a heads-up, I have moved the thread from the
News & Updates category to
Computers & The Internet, and I have slightly edited the title of this thread in the same breath to insert the words
"at YouTube", because without those added words, an unwitting visitor could be tempted to believe that your thread would be about censorship here at
The One Truth.
We have in the past been accused of censorship — and in highly dramatic and puerile ways too, for that matter — simply because we were
moderating posts in which people were treading all over
the Forum Rules. Sadly enough, some ego-driven people are opined that having to behave like intelligent and responsible adults toward their fellow human beings would be a form of censorship. :rolleyes:
I had only just been recruited as a
purple moderator around the time that this situation was playing out — this was in April 2015 — and I saw how it inflicted a great deal of damage upon the forum. A great number of our members left
The One Truth all over the course of two days, and although some of them have in the meantime returned, others have not.
And to make matters even worse, one of our former staff members — it has taken me some time to figure out who, and I am not going to name him in public, but anyone who wants to know is free to contact me in private — then decided to follow these ex-members around to whatever forums they had migrated — and they were on quite a few of them — in order to troll them and make it appear as if Malc was doing it.
So, with a great number of our members having left
The One Truth, and these members then being followed around and harassed at whatever their chosen forum
du jour was by a nym-shifting troll — who happens to be a former staff member and who had observed Malc's writing style well enough to be able to imitate him in a credible manner — all kinds of wild stories and allegations started arising, all the way up to that Malc was hacking the
Eye-Rise forum, which was not our sister forum yet at the time.
The above in mind, I think you will be able to understand that I am being more than a little defensive on account of anything that could harm the forum, even if it's unintended. ;)
I know what "GMTA" stands for. I use that acronym myself sometimes. ;)