hoops you must jump through for Peoria Music Scene forum

No offense, but on Peoria Music Scene forum, you can't even promote the use of alcohol, a perfectly legal and taxed drug, so I guess that rules out the Skabs and most other rock, blues, jazz, punk, noise, techno, folk, etc. bands, clubs, and other venues.

You can't even promote "the use of sex" -- you mean you can't mention the fact that you have a son or daughter, you can't promote "sex", even as a God-given pro-creative act in holy matrimony????!!!

No music groups that I know of can meet such stringent moral standards, hell, not even individual people can be so "pure" and non-controversial. Doesn't this negate the whole free speech democracy of the web revolution? I'm glad this Live Music Peoria site is more liberal in it's approach to a music forum.

What gets me is the express ban on "inaccurate" statements. This is highly subjective. If you posted "Str8 Sounds sucks, it's just random disorganized noise", the site administrator could decide that remark is "inaccurate" because I also do reggae and techno music, so the comment could be removed and the user banned from the site.

It's rock and roll, for Pete's sake! It's like you have to abandon your music persona and become a choir boy to get in, just to SEE the content!

Can someone explain why Peoria Music Scene forces you to sign up for an account BEFORE YOU EVEN SEE ANY CONTENT on the site? As a web analyst, I can state categorically that these restrictions are NOT common for a blog or forum, and especially not for one devoted to rock or other popular genres of music.

It reminds me, and consider this "gentle teasing" and not an attack, of how cigarettes are banned from bars. I'm sure there's a good explanation for all these hoops a user must jump through, prior to even seeing, much less posting comments or topic threads, on the site.

My guess is that they had some really terrible trolls that caused users to commit suicide or something, and that's why they had to put up all these rules and stipulations and threats.

But I hope someone will give the actual explanation.

P.S. Having been involved in blogocombat for over 6 years now, and having been marginally involved in the infamous Kathy Sierra vs. Mean Kids death threat and abusive comments fiasco, I can tell them this: it's nearly impossible to "take legal action" against internet users and comment posters.

I have exposed a famous team troll called Amanda Chapel, and they try to sue and get people fired from their jobs (like "for blogging while on company time"), and I attacked these jerks, who use filthy language as they troll others, and while they Twittered a death threat at me ("when we come to power, you'll be the first one we whack", etc.) ... and I happen to know a few things about trolls, TOS, and internet law.

http://pluperfecter.blogspot.com/2008/07/amanda-chapel-anti-blogosphere-...

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3146/kathy-sierra-and-mean-kids-cont...

http://www.blogher.com/node/17339

http://www.rageboy.com/2007/03/re-kathy-sierras-allegations.html

This "Rage Boy" is Christopher Locke, a personal friend of mine, and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of Gonzo Marketing, and author of anti-New Age/anti-witchcraft blog "Mystic Bourgeoisie"

http://www.cluetrain.com/

http://mysticbourgeoisie.blogspot.com/

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