Jyte should follow through on "Really, it can be anything you want" and not censor claims.

Well bignose, Jyte started out as completely uncensored. Some people from the early Jyte days (well, it's only 6 weeks old) might remember that we had a number of trolls doing/saying some very offensive things to other Jyters. So we had to implement something. People were being made to be uncomfortable to the point of leaving the site. We are loathe to censor anything, but people come here to be intellectually challenged, or have fun, or just to pass the time, to connect with other people, or...

Having people be uncomfortable (or worse) because of hate speech, making fun of them, or harassed is not something I think we can let fly. A good debate may indeed make some people uncomfortable, and that's ok. Harassment, hate speech, that sort of thing is not.

Some of the things that I believe DO need to be removed from the site:

1) Promoting criminal activity
2) Harassing people
3) Attempting to exploit people
4) Spam, etc

And a bunch of others that are in our Terms of Service.

Jason

The disconnect comes from "So we had to do something" to "... and that something was censoring what authors write".

I believe Jyte has a feature to allow users to ignore selected OpenIDs. This should solve the problem without censorship: if any user doesn't want any communication from a particular mailicious user, that malicious user's OpenID goes on their ignore list.

I think there's an implied "be respectful of your neighbors" bit there. Does it need to be more explicit? I'd hope that people know that already, but perhaps that's too optimisitic.