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Chowk Staff - Please reflect on this - seriously! Thanks,


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Chowk Staff - Please reflect on this - seriously! Thanks,

Topic started by milas on Jan 2, 2005 4:09:22 pm

Temporal Sahib - If you are not Chowk Staff, please accept my apologies in advance. But if you are, then please reflect on what I have to say. What kind of example is being set by the arbitrary and draconian measures of banning people that scout or saminasha don’t like? If profanity and abuse are the standards, then they should be banned before kkkandk and salim. We all know that the nic ’’Table’’ was used by scout in which she ostensibly enjoyed defecating on my dead grandmother’s bones. If altercation and strife are standards, then both scout and saminasha have started their fair share of fights. You summarily executed kkkandk when the latter had not used profanity, but instead was a victim of abusive language and thread after thread of insults from both scout and saminsha.

Is Chowk sinking to the same standards of ’’sifarish’’ and nepotism that plague South Asia? Are you trying your best to make desis feel at home? How can you or any ’’liberals’’ stand up for freedom of expression, when you don’t allow the same rights on Chowk? How will you complain against dictatorship and the rule of the gun, or might is right, when you practice the same atrocious high-handed and one-sided law enforcement yourself? Who will listen to your whining against the wardi, the tank, the barrel of the gun, Hudood Ordinance, anti-blasphemy laws, or women’s suppression, when you misuse your power of admin rights by playing judge, jury, and executioner yourself.

It is obvious that you are reduced to rubber stamp status for scout, saminasha, and their group of minions. Your credibility is at stake. If you have an ounce of dignity and self-respect left, please restore the nics ’’salim’’ and ’’kkkandk.’’ and their respective ilogs. Thank you for listening and I am, unrealistically, hopeful of some justice here at Chowk. If you demonstrate this measure of justice, I make a solemn promise never to use abusive language against anyone.

Mr. Temporal, if you are not Chowk Staff and are aware of who is, please pass my request to the appropriate authorities.

Thanks,
Salim


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Post by temporal on Jan 3, 2005 8:16:13 am

yes...but it is their turf


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Post by scoutgas on Jan 3, 2005 8:03:29 am

Temporal sahib,
Thanks. I agree with you. But, the enforcement needs to be uniform - no favoritism or nepotism. :)


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Post by temporal on Jan 3, 2005 7:25:09 am

salim/milas:

1: apology accepted

2: no i won’t pass this on...you have done the right thing by posting this on the chowk updates and feedback section...now it is up to the chowk staff to act...

personally i have a very low level of threshold for four letter words as enunciated in duck, man, duck somewhere on chowk...and if it were up to me ...in the interest of civil discourse...leaving the deeper implications of morality and ethics aside...i would have suggested three strikes and out when it comes to foul language regardless of the uses...


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