I can’t think of anyone who left over the brewery but if they did, show me on the doll where they brewery hurt you?
Why should we risk losing even ONE single member that is genuinely interested in electronics, just for the sake of allowing others to have divisive debates completely unrelated to electronics ? What is more important ? What is the actual purpose of this forum ?
Some of you are acting defensively like there is a danger to freedom of speech, but you all live in a democratic state where you are allowed to discuss everything and everywhere. Why do you need this forum as a champion of free speech ? The majority of us already have plenty of that in our daily lives - thankfully.
In my experience those who are overly passionate about politics, daily affairs, etc. usually want this passion to spread around like a cancer.
They feel entitled to have these kind of debates at every possible occasion. They crave a stage where to practice this passion and somehow this place has been hacked and became yet another platform for them.
Nobody would do the same with a different kind of topic, let's say electronics. You would discuss it only when certain conditions are met.
For some reason people who are passionate about politics etc. most of the times feel entitled they should be allowed to have these discussions anytime, anywhere, with anybody.
You are only left with ignoring them, because very often if you point out it's not the right situation to talk about these matters, you risk being told you are attacking their freedom of speech.
Unfortunately the brewery will remain the same because essentially the decision whether it should exist or not is left in the hands of people who actually love it the way it is.
Either you ignore it, or you are an enemy of freedom.
I cannot fully understand what the rules of the forum are, I often read John Roberts referencing to some list of "Ethan rules".
Tell me if I am blind but I don't see this list of rules anywhere, the "terms and rules" section of the website is only talking about something related to intellectual property.
Anyways Ethan has sold the forum and left, why are we still referencing to his rules ?
Please point me out to where is the code of conduct of this forum because I cannot find it.
All I can see at the top of the brewery section is that personal attacks are strictly moderated, and actually me and other users recently pointed out serious concerns about the system.
Not only nothing has changed but also the related threads have been censored and deleted from the forum, which didn't look like a great display of freedom of speech.
The way things have been handled last time doesn't make me feel there is any hope for change on this occasion either.
Like in many other aspects of our life, democracy is only an illusion.
