Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests Why did my topic about sex in Contiques get pulled?

Anyone consider that HS and College is out for the Summer?

kids are bored, things will return to normal in less than a month.

I agree about the demographics, 2 years ago we were talkign about a car that sold for 21-25K. Not too many young'uns could afford it. Now that everyone has the majority of orig. owners have sold we have the young crowd who is moving up into 12K cars.

How sad it is

I am very torn on this post. I am very opinionated and enjoy expressing my opinion. I don't believe in being politically correct or censoring things because it might offend people. I don't think it is necessary to shield other's eyes from what it is really there, that they can't see. I greatley enjoy the off-topic area and would/will be sad to see it go. I wouldn't be suprised to see it go because of all the stinks lately (of which I must admit I contribute to).

We (myself greatly included) must remember that this is Lance's site. Yes, many of us made donations recently to help keep it up but WE do not own it HE does. In the event that at somepoint in the future he does transfer ownership to someone else I suppose that could change many things, maybe it would becoome a democracy? Who knows. Most importantly, that's not how it is now, and we should be happy that the CEG is still around.

Ultimately the owner has chosen to have a line drawn in the sand as to what is acceptable and what is not, and having the mods help him enforce it. Letting anything go would elimante squabbles over why people's topics were deleted etc. but in many people's eyes (not mine) would degrade the site. IMO, squabbles will continue to exist until:
A: People stop arguing over topic deletion, or even questioning it
B: Off-topic is removed

-Pete

Squabbles exist in the local forums and in General as well. It is just more often in Off-Topic. I just think that it is stupid to argue with the mods/admins. It's their rules. That's it. We live by them on CEG, like it or not. Just my opinion.

Cappuccino911, and who are you?

At this point I'm not even sure I'd like to see Off-Topic; the way it's gotten recently. However, all of the complaint posts could be easily remedied if only the complainer sends a PM to an administrator. None of this outward complaining anymore! (IMHO this should be included in the User Agreement!)

It would probably work better if the moderator send the PM to the CEGer. There are different moderators, on at different times of the day. Last thread that sparked one of these 'Where did my thread go' topics, Lance was the person that deleted it. That would mean Lance would have been send a message and wouldn't know what the guy was talking about (unless he asked Christy :p ). All it would take is a little, "Hi, I'm Moderator. I deleted your topic because it is does not follow the rules to the CEG. Have a good day! "

yup, even though we the users just dropped thousands of dollars to keep this site running. makes a lot of sense. if we paid the money, i see no reason why we shouldnt have a full blown porno section at the CEG if the interest is there. this site is 97% grown men anyway, anyone complaining about a topic about sex needs to loosen up their neck tie or check to see if they still have testicles...

and dont get me wrong, i respect the opinions of most of the big dogs on this site including rara and all of you guys who think the CEG is a class act. i'm just saying, all it does is create hostility when posts are deleted for no good reason. I could care less if sex comes up or not mainly because I keep that part of my life private. but if others want to discuss a topic and it's not pornographic, I see no problem with it.

they wanna remain classy, family-oriented, cut-above-the-rest...

it's all good

I'm happy for you, but this forum is not the place for such discussions, regardless of who wants to see them. The internet has plenty of other sites where that can be discussed, and we don't wanna use any bandwidth on it.

so if you talk about sex, you don't have class?