Censorship is Wrong » Shoutwire.com

Looking at you, guy who deleted the "two ads" article.

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bulshoy, on 5/16/2008 12:52:47 PM
Total Posts: 6244, Joined: 11/15/2005

"How come the top people in most buisness's are so out of touch with the people they provide their service to."

This has been the #1 problem since Tubearoo bought ShoutWire. You summed it up in one fucking sentence.

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geoluv, on 5/16/2008 1:00:32 PM
Total Posts: 544, Joined: 11/15/2006

i do admit when i hover over my history bar and think about clicking shoutwire i get a vision of an experience clusterd the fuck up with ads and a slow ass time reading the articles and commenting on them from all the fucking redirects and bullshit.

dont make your website require more effort to enjoy than digg or the others, because people will start forgetting about you. i dont buy that line that shoutwire isnt making money one bit, telling your customers things like that is the oldest trick in the book.

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Anonymity, on 5/16/2008 1:03:08 PM
Total Posts: 11, Joined: 4/8/2008

@ r4mcok,
Your comment follows what is known as the "slippery-slope" argument. That is if one thing happens, the next thing you know something worse happens. It's like if the gov't legalized marijuana, critics would say "the next thing you know, we'll legalize cocaine" or some shit like that. The point to take home is that it's not always necessarily true.

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HunterPence, on 5/16/2008 1:08:17 PM
Total Posts: 1147, Joined: 7/25/2006

What's funny is that, what? That "two-ad" essay was going to be the sparkplug for some internet rEVOLution? I was never going to read it. Who has the time? But an article about censorship...

On a related note, I'm reading this at work, while I'm waiting for some documents to convert to pdf. Except, I'm so used to closing pop-ups that as soon as my documents are done, I just close by reflex, and have to start all over again. Three times!

The first step in dealing with road rage is admitting you have road rage.

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sauron82, on 5/16/2008 1:26:42 PM
Total Posts: 23, Joined: 12/30/2005

It's bullshit that they'd delete the article because it's critical. Learn how to take criticism; it'll make the site better.

However, SW's gone so far down I don't think it can recover.

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Qball1974, on 5/16/2008 1:28:37 PM
Total Posts: 820, Joined: 6/4/2007

^LOL I do the same thing!

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jackanape, on 5/16/2008 1:57:11 PM
Total Posts: 2369, Joined: 3/27/2006

The redirects bother me more than the advertising. Censoring dissent towards the site is unacceptable however.
Only narrow minded people refuse to listen to the voice of opposition.

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medfreak, on 5/16/2008 1:59:39 PM
Total Posts: 2531, Joined: 1/15/2007

I see only one ad.

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Scobiewan, on 5/16/2008 2:00:31 PM
Total Posts: 601, Joined: 6/22/2006

There's nothing to say anymore. I'm on browser number 3 now, just to comment. If articles are getting deleted, this site might as well be digg, so wtf are we bothering with it for?

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SargentMac, on 5/16/2008 2:07:29 PM
Total Posts: 214, Joined: 11/16/2007

To be "brutally honest", I couldn't give a shit less. I want decent editorials back. I want Zero's stupid best/worst 8 3/4 lists back.

Mostly I just want to cut my losses and see how far it goes and when it's finally too far, find a new site.

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