This leads to one of the points: true, that specific issue was solved quickly. I brought it on because it was one of the most serious ones, although there were plenty of minor other issues, including the fact of producing rubbish that made harder to find other pieces of code, as stated earlier:badidea wrote:That was not the reason why he was banned. That post was moderated and solved quickly. And no sane person would have followed that 'advice' anyway.speedfixer wrote:If he gave bad medical advice - it cannot stand
Basically, Albert's post required a lot of time from moderators: and moderators do that in their free time, and they are not paid. People like jj2007 and dodicat stated that they would like to still have Albert around, but they expect someone else to do all the extra moderation job that it would require. Of all the people complaining about his ban, has anyone offered to take the responsibility of moderating his posts? I don't think so.BasicCoder2 wrote:Gems which are lost forever, too much rubbish to sift through. Actually most forums are 90% rubbish with a few gems from a few talented people.
Maybe Albert needed a section that would auto delete after a couple of weeks.
That's why I suggested to make a discord server for him, and move any interaction with him there.
Anyway, this discussion raises another issue, that I think we should talk about: I guess we all agree that posting fake medical advice is something that cannot be tolerated, especially during a pandemic. Yet, technically, the terms of use do not forbid it: it is stated:
There is no mention about fake medical advice, or in general to any misleading information or fake news, although lately it has become a problem addressed by the law in several countries. Perhaps it was not a problem when the terms of use were written and no one thought to include it.You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where “freebasic.net” is hosted or International Law
So, my question is: should the terms of use of this forum be updated, to include some rule against misleading information and/or fake news?