In a comment I made to BikePortland they censored the word "Jerks".
They censored three words I used. The first was "Asshat", which while I clearly don't think that to be a terrible word, I will at least give them the leeway to censor that on their own site.
However I am not sure what the problem was with the word "Jerks".
Here is the original text of my comment:
They replaced the "jerks" with **moderated** That seems a bit lame.
And as for what happened at River City bikes, well - it is not really that big of a deal. I just felt that the clerks gave clueless answers with lame excuses - and instead I chose to take my business elsewhere... The Bike Gallery guys were very nice and helpful, as they always have been = despite the fact that their model of the tag-a-long bike I was looking for would not fit my bike. I wish TREK made more models in the USA so that I could buy more stuff from Bike Gallery (I try to buy as locally made as possible. Portland, then Oregon, then Pacific Northwest, then USA - you get the idea).
Anyway - Kudos to BikePortland for excessive censorship.
Jonathon Maus, author of BikePortland later responded with this:
And since your readership is probably a hundred thousand times mine, as I am pretty sure that only myself and the friends I trick with TinyURL links ever read my blog - you probably have a much bigger "right" to reserve.
However, I find it a little absurd that you did not like the "tone" of me complaining about a Jerk working at River City.
Bah, whatever. In any event - it sheds a little light on what may or may not be edited at BikePortland if people disagree with Jonathon.
And no matter what you say, the staff at River City were, in my opinion, Asshats.
They censored three words I used. The first was "Asshat", which while I clearly don't think that to be a terrible word, I will at least give them the leeway to censor that on their own site.
However I am not sure what the problem was with the word "Jerks".
Here is the original text of my comment:
Too bad River City Bicycles is staffed by clueless asshats.(Note, the second occurrence of "Jerks" contains a typo extra s, I understand that already - no need to comment and tell me.)
I went in there twice in the last couple years to buy some moderately expensive bike things (a couple at about $300 each). The first time they were jerks, I chalked it up to maybe a bad apple or someone having a bad day. Last week we tried again and they were jersks again. So we left and spent our money elsewhere…
Too bad too, I am in the market for a new Cannondale and they won’t get my business.
They replaced the "jerks" with **moderated** That seems a bit lame.
And as for what happened at River City bikes, well - it is not really that big of a deal. I just felt that the clerks gave clueless answers with lame excuses - and instead I chose to take my business elsewhere... The Bike Gallery guys were very nice and helpful, as they always have been = despite the fact that their model of the tag-a-long bike I was looking for would not fit my bike. I wish TREK made more models in the USA so that I could buy more stuff from Bike Gallery (I try to buy as locally made as possible. Portland, then Oregon, then Pacific Northwest, then USA - you get the idea).
Anyway - Kudos to BikePortland for excessive censorship.
Jonathon Maus, author of BikePortland later responded with this:
I do not have rigid rules for how I decide to moderate. In some cases “jerks” would be OK…but since you first called them something less appropriate I decided I did not like the tone in this situation.Yay Jonathon.
And “BikePortland” is not some organization. It is one person (me). It is my business and I reserve the right to moderate any word at any time for any reason.
And since your readership is probably a hundred thousand times mine, as I am pretty sure that only myself and the friends I trick with TinyURL links ever read my blog - you probably have a much bigger "right" to reserve.
However, I find it a little absurd that you did not like the "tone" of me complaining about a Jerk working at River City.
Bah, whatever. In any event - it sheds a little light on what may or may not be edited at BikePortland if people disagree with Jonathon.
And no matter what you say, the staff at River City were, in my opinion, Asshats.
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