Dissenting Threads are Being Locked!

On the basis that (quoting a moderator's explanation) "threads questioning policy should be started in the Ask The Admin forum."

Well, I looked at the Ask The Admin info, and it states:
"Ask a question and get an answer from the site administrators (Skinner, EarlG, or elad)."

So, If I don't have a question for an admin, there is no reason to post in that forum. If I just want to dicuss, with other DUers, the effects that this policy has on the GD forum, then the GD forum is the best place to do so. Censorship on a democratic forum is absolutely a political issue. If we were discussing censorship on Free Republic, would the admins have a problem?

Furthermore, other types of posts that are begun in a wrong forum are simply moved to the correct forum. It's mighty strange that dissenting viewpoints in the GD forum are locked, or deleated.

So, DUers, do you think that these policies will make you less likely, or more likey to post in GD, or will it just not matter to you?

Note: I have no questions for the admins. I want to hear from the people who use the service. Let this thread stay where it is, please, unlocked. I have broken no rules.

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Questions about Democratic Underground policies belong in the "Ask the Administrators" forum. All discussion topics relating to Democratic Underground policies, procedures, enforcement, etc., which are posted outside of the "Ask the Administrators" forum will be locked or deleted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html#topics

This has been the rule for months and months.

I'm locking this thread.

Skinner
DU Admin

You seem like you've been here a while so spit it out...what thread was locked ...tell us (the members) the contents of the locked thread and we will tell you if your assesment is correct or not

The admins pretty clearly stated that this was a temporary policy put in place to reduce the amount of traffic in general discussion until they can resolved the performance issues plaguing DU. Speaking as someone who was increasingly frustrated with the instability of DU, I have no problem with this policy as long as it is a temporary measure in place until the issues can be fixed (gawd I sound like a freeper talking about the PATRIOT act!).

These guidelines are completely unrelated to the server problems. The server problems have been almost entirely fixed.

For more information, please read this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=149059&mesg_id=149059

Skinner
DU Admin