There needs to be less censoring in the poll section of DDO

"my opponent has already breached the rules with his rebuttals in his opening argument,"The concept of 'no rebuttals' doesnt apply to making personal attacks against your opponent like you did when you tried to paint me as a hypocrite. You voided your own rules by trying to hit below the belt the first chance you got. "My opponent has admitted that there is censorship for polls the mod may view as racist, how is this fair?"Because racist polls are bad you giant imbecile. It qualifies as hate speech, gives the site a bad image, always incites flame wars, and never leads to reasonable discussions. "suggesting sexism is perfectly fine but racism not"All that is suggested is that racist polls are worse than sexist polls, not that sexist polls are perfectly fine. Try to join the rest of us in reality rather then try to stretch the truth about everything that doesnt fit into your view of the world. " The only solution..... would be to ease up on censorship."Allowing racist polls to be posted for a problem that does not exist is not a 'solution' hect.... It's asinine. "One of my first polls that started this whole issue was asking if people supported my side or the moderators side"Which was one of several polls you made in a short period of time and also was one where the comments section turned into a host of personal attacks against the poll mod. Those qualities of your poll warranted its deletion since it did fit into one of the requirements for a poll to warrant deletion. "it is not an ad hominem when I say you are a liar and a hypocrite"The debate you are quoting from came from a year ago, I'm allowed to change my views from that point and I have. Therefore I am not a hypocrite nor a liar like you claimed, and I was more than within my right to rebuttal against your cowardly claims since you insist on attacking my character rather then produce a single coherent argument for your side of the debate. " how can anyone be expected to trust my opponent with anything he says now."It will be pretty easy considering i'm not the one who already made an idiot out of himself by thinking that I'm a girl, and believing that incredibly racist polls should be allowed on the site as a 'solution' to over-moderation. "And again why can we talk about what religion is better but not what race."Because loads of intelligent conversation can be had about principles of religion but nothing good can come out of a poll titled 'why are whites better than blacks?'. It's not hypocritical to allow polls about religion but not polls about race that are racist because religious polls are far more likely than racist polls to spark a decent exchange instead of a flamewar. "I cannot provide the deleted polls because they have been DELETED"That's your problem though because simply alleging that hundreds of polls have been unfairly deleted by the mods and pointing to their alleged non-existence as evidence isn't sufficient as evidence. What pro is doing is the equivalent of someone claiming that Odin is the one true god since Odin claimed to kill all the ice giants, and pointing to the non-existence of ice giants as proof. You can't point to the lack of proof of evidence as evidence that what you are saying is true. "As I have already said this form of censoring needs to go."And as I have already said, the word-filter that causes some comments to be 'submitted for moderation' is something that is built into the coding of the site, and is NOT something the moderators can control. In fact the moderators literally gave advice for how to get AROUND the filter, which shoots down your claim that the mods are running wild out of control since moderators wouldnt give advice about how to get around moderation if they were over-censoring the polls section."my opponents rebuttals did not address my issues"You didn't provide a single coherent point to begin with, in fact you spent more space on your character assassination of me then of the actual topic we are debating here. "why does my opponent think it should be the responsibility of someone else to decide for us what is offensive or what we should be able to read or learn?"It's not being decided what is able to be read or learned though, what is being decided is if something is spam, racist, hateful, or an advertisement. Those 4 things are all that is decided, as it should be, which is why there doesn't need to be less censoring of the polls section. "So my opponent has already admitted that this form of censoring is annoying, which is a major step back for him."It is most certainly not a major step back since, and im saying this for the fourth time now: The mods have outlined tactics for how people can get around this problem, and did so in the thread detailing the rules that mods abide by when censoring the polls. The fact that hect continues to stick his head in the ground on this point only shows that he has no rebuttal to the evidence that the moderators are not over-censoring the site and are in fact providing tips for how to get around some built-in moderation of the site, and thus is conceding the argument. "I also provided 3 examples of polls made by user TBR which were censored"All three of them were made within the same few hours, all were titled almost the exact same thing, and qualified as spam polls, warranting their deletion. "Shouldn't people with seemingly odd worldviews be given the chance to say what they want to say"Not when what those people want to say is pure hate speech, which is what racist polls always result to be. "many others in the poll section have been complaining about the censoring and it needs to stop"Your own poll and others like it show that a majority of people disagree with you: http://www.debate.org...http://www.debate.org...Moderation within the polls section of DDO is safe, guided by rules, and done at an acceptable level. I extend all other arguments that Pro has forfeited