@Elle, I’m sorry you feel this way; this is certainly not the way we want things to go.
Everyone is welcome here, and we try hard to be welcoming. We also try to allow people to correct themselves. When it is clear the correction is not coming, or that things have gone too far, I take action as an admin. I’d rather have things go too far than cut them off too soon. These are my general thoughts, not a comment on any particular action.
For some specifics:
The policy is very clear. I can’t make people read things, but everything here is a default of the creative commons license. This applies to your posts as well. In addition, every version of the posts people make are licensed creative commons, which means we can publish or reuse any of those posts as we see fit. This is what the creative commons is for. This policy has been in place since the creation of the forums. I don’t understand what isn’t clear about that. It was explained in the “Who owns the content” post as well. If you have questions about the policy, then please ask, and we’ll do our best to answer.
In the case of the first wave of deletions, it was in the middle of the night, and we didn’t realize it until the posts were permanently deleted.
I’m sorry you didn’t get to share you thoughts, but that thread went too far off the rails and was no longer productive. If you’d like to share your thoughts on the creative commons license, I’d ask that you either start a new public thread to discuss your concerns or you can message me privately and I’ll do my best to explain our position. I had already stated as such in that thread.
Who’d you hear that from? It is entirely untrue. He’ll be unsilenced at the end of January. If he wants to return to post in a civil manner, he is certainly welcome back. If he chooses to continue in the manner in which he did prior to his silencing, then he is not welcome.
It isn’t about the word fuck. I’m an adult, I’ve heard the word before. It is about the way he was treating others, and not just me. The same goes for his friend, who couldn’t seem to stop insulting people. We tried many, many times for him to stop, and he wouldn’t.
And actually, his post was deleted, as he wanted it. You can see it here.
I’d invite you to re-read that thread, particularly my post.