I agree with you particularly the last paragraph. We generally do not take heavy hand / censorship when possible.
To reiterate again, there is nothing wrong with your sharing of the article. I could see from my end over 7-10 moderator actions on that thread of 30 posts. Hence, locking the thread is a way to de-escalate a “hot / contentious” thread.
What was inappropriate was the responses by a few errant users posting irresponsibly on sensitive race-religious matters. Their degrading racist and remarks were unnecessary in a multi racial, multi cultural country like Singapore.
Hence, after action was taken on those posts, the thread was locked and remained until your feedback to us.
i thanks the mods for clarification and this is the end of my feedback.
i think few will disagree degrading racist remarks can be tolerated in a muticultural society like sg, i personally will not tolerate such.
my point is locking a hot/contentious
poster/user the correct decision, locking a thread on a article that basically has nothing wrong is not the right decision.
problematic users/trolls can find random threads and random angles to troll to escalate into potential hot/contentious threads, we must consider wat power/leverage the mods are giving to the trolls.
again i not appealing for this particular thread to be lock or unlock, my interest is uneven moderation and i hope u all give some thought to this.
mods shoulder the responsibility of keeping order but how do u execute this and to wat extent is a question. shaping the forum towards a ultra sensitive self censorship is not the right direction for the forum especially edmw.
note when situation escalate its bec the bad poster stir up gd posters to react to the bad poster. is the bad poster the problem or non bad poster the problem here?
we are all responsible for our own post not the post of other ppl. like wise the repercussion/consequence of each post should be bear by the individual poster not other users.
there seems to be also users who have query on my feedback, to repeat myself i give another illustration to reinforce my point.
imagine we are managing a road, our primary purpose is to let vehicles move on the road. a nut create nuisance on a bus so we take this bus off the road. then tomorrow this nut go on other buses to create nuisance are we going to stop other buses too? in the end if this nut continues are we going to stop all buses from the road? so we are allowing this nut alone to control which vehicle can move on the whole road?
