MY POSTS WERE DELETED

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Kandy*is*Dandy on Saturday, August 24, 2002 and has 13 replies.

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@phoenix_rising
21 Years5,000+ Posts

Kandy, they most likely deleted your posts because of the content, was there any vulgar language?

P.S. Some people might be offended that you use the word "gay" to describe something that's negative.

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@Kandy*is*Dandy
21 YearsSagittarius

Yeah i used 'vulgar' language but my friend said you could cuss so...

I don't remember what thread i posted on i just remember that some girl was upset because she's a taurus and a sag guy liked her.

Oh and I don't care if people are offended by the way I used the word gay. That's their fault for feeling that way. And no one ever stopped anyone from saying things that offended me...

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@Unregistered
21 Years10,000+ Posts

I am gay funnily enough, but have no objections to people using words in whatever way they like - gay started off as a negative label, then it became an empowering one, maybe now it's changing it's context again.
Language is a dynamic function - I don't see why you should censor this process via notions of political correctness (aka appeasing the mob mentality).

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@BoneCrusher
21 Years

How can you erase your posting?? I wrote to the Mediator in search of this solution and they have ignored my request.
Please someone advise.

Thanks,
BoneCrusher

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@csdude55
11 YearsVirgo

I am gay funnily enough, but have no objections to people using words in whatever way they like - gay started off as a negative label, then it became an empowering one, maybe now it's changing it's context again.

FWIW, "gay" originally just mean "lighthearted and carefree". It's only in the last few decades that it was used to refer to sexuality.

So the short-lived trend of using it to refer to something negative (which I honestly haven't heard in at least 10 years) never made any sense, in any context.

To answer your question of "why", the answer is "because the moderator felt that what you posted was a violation of the site's TOS". There's a link to the TOS at the bottom of the page:

https://www.dxpnet.com/terms-of-use/

Based on what you've said here, I'm assuming the violation was in 7C:

c) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or

group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,

race, ethnicity, age, or disability;