alphamale

I think censorship and free speech never used to be a fine line. It is now with this new woke way of life. Yes ban people posting ILLEGAL stuff but using a word such as "hate" and blocking that is daft. That word can be used in lots od ways , not all negative either. I detest this new way on the internet. Why can't people just accept that we are all different. have been raised differently, different outlook on life etc and learn to adapt. Censorship is exactly what twitter, Facebook etc do and they are hated for it. 
Ok, ill give you a real life scenario. A computer forum I used to frequent , years ago, had, if my memory is right , approx 40k members with about 15k active. They sold to a new owner. He banned people discussing competitors and put a pinned topic at the top of every thread stating that anybody mentioning competitors were banned, no questions asked. That same forum now has approx 2k members with about 200-300 active and are still putting up the same posts but also new ones telling people that if they discuss the process the company is asking for graphics cards (they were blatantly ripping people off) that they will be banned. Real success story NOT

I'm not, in any way, trying to be overly critical or harsh, but that post is pretty much 100% verbal fluff and no actual actionable content. We're all adults here, and we're all (I guess) community managers ourselves and know fluff when we see it. Maybe it's my Israeli no-bullcrap-"chutzpah" talking, but I'd would LOVE it if you could point out some of the actual technical reasons that led to making this decision, and how Invision is looking to proceed from here - is this feature never going to be available for self-hosted clients? Are you wanting to implement some sort of alternative? What's the probability of there being more of those cases in the future? Are you at all interested in doing the work needed to get hard-to-implement features available for self-hosted clients or will you put those efforts into more seamlessly integrating them for cloud clients?
 
I know what I'm saying might come off as harsh or rude, but you have to understand that none of us (I hope) bought the IPS suite as a single time purchase and "the next time" we buy a community software "we'll try something else". This isn't a bottle of shampoo, we're all making long-term plans based on your software, some of us have businesses involving actual money and peoples' jobs and livelihoods relying on it. So "being vulnerable" is nice and all, but it can't be taken to the bank, and is - honestly - kind of insulting. This whole interaction needs to be WAY more pragmatic and way less like we're a community of 10 year olds getting together to have a great time.