Surely the beauty of voting rather than having all-powerful editors is that neither I nor anyone else has the power not to "allow others the same courtesy". But I do have the power to contribute my £/50 to building up a consensus on what we want to see here.

After all, we reap nodes that are stupid. That's part of the consensus on what kind of site this is. I'd like us to have some taste and decency boundaries too. If I'm alone in this, we won't get them. That's democracy for ya - I think it could scarcely be thought of as "censorship".

I read the node because I often take a gander at the new poetry, and also to see exactly what "adult" meant in this context. In fact, I discover, "adult" here meant "juvenile". And it was that which made me think we'd be better off without it.

Petruchio put it best in the CB - a post needs to be really clever to justify that level of obscenity. And I don't think it was.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Dirty Limerick -- Too Lewd for TPJ (Note: adult content) by George_Sherston
in thread Dirty Limerick -- Too Lewd for TPJ (Note: adult content) by chipmunk

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