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Talkback? - Jake Travis (20th Apr 2015 - 16:56:56) Editor - is right that a forum affiliated with the official information website of Bramshott & Liphook should be allowed to operate with such disregard for moderation? Letting so much rubbish be posted on here makes one wonder why even have a moderator? Steve, Kevin Jackson, Peter and Kat (sorry, Tony...) - why should all this hearsay and half-baked gossip be answered or entertained on a community information website? Either way from a legal perspective, someone must have deep pockets. Shut it down! Jake - there is NO affiliation with the local council OR any official body. This is a website run in our spare time. Moderation is done as we feel fit.

Re: Talkback? - Kevin Jackson (20th Apr 2015 - 17:17:10) Well said Editor. I do not talk rubbish or half baked gossip and all I would say to Jake Travis "If you don't like Liphook Talkback, don't go onto the site." Simple. There is a lot wrong with the way this parish council is run (I assume the posts attached to this subject and related ones is to what you are alluding).and no amount of people like you trying to muzzle us is going to work.

Re: Talkback? - Rob (20th Apr 2015 - 17:49:44) Jake these are facts, this council have hidden so much from use as tax paying people, £130000 in legal cost and other costs to get rid of Mr Groves, all hidden The ex manager of the millennium Hall payed of cos they got it wrong again. Mr Gavin worked 70/80 hours a week only got paid for 37 cos he loved the job and was working to improve the quality of the hall. 2 of the things they sacked him for, I will stand up in a court of law and prove the council have got it wrong. So their case looks bad already against Mr Gavin!!!!

Re: Talkback? - Keith (21st Apr 2015 - 09:03:55) Well said Editor This is a private site which allows free discussion. I agree sometimes tempers can get frayed and voices can be raised but as long as there is no incitement to sexual and racial hatred then in my book that is free speech and democracy. As others have said, if you don't like what you read, don't read it!

Re: Talkback? - Lips (21st Apr 2015 - 13:08:43) ...so why the arbitrary exclusion of 'no incitement to sexual and racial hatred'? Shall we incite to religious hatred? Who defines where the limits should go and on what grounds? Me: I say everything goes unless dangerous. As rightly said above: you don't like - don't read. Now: what constitutes a dangerous posting? :)

Re: Talkback? - Jake Travis (21st Apr 2015 - 13:13:00) Free speech is fine, having a community forum that allows so much mud-slinging in print is something I don't understand. I recognise the frustration at alleged mis-management by certain individuals on the Parish Council, however to post these comments/ask questions of the BLPC is doing everyone's reputation no favours - the village included. If this was a local newspaper, then wold the majority of posts be re-printed in the letters section? I don't think so.

Re: Talkback? - Lips (21st Apr 2015 - 16:49:11) I will try to explain in simpler terms. Say the community was the child, the moderators were the parents and the forum was that special sand-pit or fun-farm. The forum is the one unique place where the child was actually free to do what IT wanted to do, the one place where mud-slinging IS ok. Free speech means you may not like to read all that is written on here. Don't like it ? -leave it. Stifling it means it is no longer free speech. If you think the community is too infantile for you, well then that's just what it is. Maintaining a more mature / grown-up argument is always welcome, but not censuring free speech. And no, this is not a newspaper.

Re: Talkback? - Keith (21st Apr 2015 - 17:50:39) Lips - you took me a little too literally - what I meant was that as long as something posted did not breach the criminal law then it was all fair and part of democracy as far as I was concerned, so apologies, I should have said, for example, sexual and racial hatred .... To come back to the point of would many of these points be printed in a newspaper letters column, no they wouldn't but that is not really a valid argument, for one thing, some posts on here (and before Lips or anyone else shoots me down, I will openly confess I can sometimes be guilty of this (and this post is ultimately turning out to be one of them!!), some posts on here can be quite verbose - on here that is no problem as there is no practical limit on post length - in a newspaper space for letters is very restricted. To give credit to this site's editor (and I have absolutely no connection with them other than that I occassionally post on here), I have always found that they allow a very even, unbiased editorial approach to each issue (which sadly is not the case in some of our local newspapers) - and remember that unlike a newspaper, the editor on the whole, does not write their opinion on any issue, or indicate support or disdain for any individual posting, and for that I think we should be sincerely congratulating the editor and not condemning them.

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