I think you will find that very few threads are closed at all, if you bothered to research the archives the statistics for both editing posts and closing threads are a very small number. This is a forum that is not owned or managed by you, therefore you do not have rights to anything other than complying with the terms and conditions of the forum laid out by Admin when the forum was established. When you establish and manage your own forum you can define how it is run and moderated, until that time you will either respect those who are performing these tasks and operate within the established rules of the forum that many others find acceptable, or choose to take your freedom of speech elsewhere.
Actually, if a new thread is started by the person who started a closed or deleted thread and refers to the same thing - that is an Infractionable offence.Start a new thread if youve got something useful to say. If its rubbish it'll get deleted
No freedom of speech in England .........!!!!!.... Enoch Powell said what he thought in his Birmingham speech and he went on to a glittering career in politics and became party leader and Prime Minister and.....er....erm.... Oh no....... must be thinking of someone else ...Oooops
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I like that,
am I the only one to think that mr Smith might now think he is an 'ELECTRICIAN' ?
Not so Ian! The 'Bill of Rights' the Americans get so hung up on is ours! In it we do have a right to free speech and also a right to bear arms. The act has never been repealed so still stands.
I have just had a quick recap over this subject and as far as I can see the only significant thread that has recently been closed is the http://www.talk.electricianforum.co.uk/electrician-talk-forum/18792-5-week-wonder-urban-myth.html thread, this was an open discussion subject started by 'Guy' and by post #100 Guy had said "Well I got my answer, definitely not a myth, but a beautiful story full of many twists and turns" so following one or two final comments the thread was closed at post #104.
I will just point out in relation to the above comment that any member is able to signal their disapproval for a thread or a posts content, by using the report post feature. Posts that are removed, are very often highlighted by other members to the mods and Admin. I assume we are all aware that this forum is a very open unregulated forum, with members able to post their content directly onto forum, without any moderation prior to it being available to be read by all other members and guests. As such, we do very much rely on the eyes of all of our members highlighting any items they consider inappropriate, so in essence the forum is basically self regulating and moderating.
It's now an offense to even mention freedom of speech within a mile of parliament. The act may still be there but subsequent laws have rendered it useless as steps horse and cart insurance.
