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@elvis presley , I wouldn't go quite that far. We often get spam and advertising posts which I remove. In the early days we had separate forums for politics and other topics but 99% of the time people still posted in the general discussion area.

7 Apr 2014

@Lynne , I tend to agree with Clive.

Line dancing
3 Mar 2014

@flo , I didn't think so, but others have been reporting similar odd behavior. I will look into it.

Webmaster
26 Jan 2014

@michaelclayson , I will have a think about this. We used to have separate forum sections for politics, the council and holiday information, but people still posted everything in the general section.

merry christmas
23 Dec 2013

Merry Christmas to all and thanks @FredBassett & agreers for your kind words. Also, this site would not be much without the contributers and posters so many thanks to you all and keep posting. Every year I give out the statistics for dawlish.com, so here are this years compared to last years (in brackets): Period: 24 Dec 2012 - 23 Dec 2013: Pageviews: 650,859 (599,827) ...

@Lynne , Please feel free to debate any subject. I didn't remove Paul's thread because of the subject matter, but because of Paul's comments. It would be the same, for example, if you had posted the links you have with racist comments, but you haven't.

Paul's Thread
13 Dec 2013

@FredBassett , I agree with free speech and rarely remove comments. I didn't remove the thread because of the news article. I believe that paul's comments were offensive and hateful towards a particular group of people and hence in breach of the terms of the forum. The thread could be reinstated but I think I am right. I am happy to consider people's objections. I don't want to be unfair or ...

13 Dec 2013

I've decided to kill the 'India bans gay sex' thread started by Paul since it was clearly intended to express a homophobic prejudice rather than to start a legitimate debate on the news story. Since the comments by Paul were offensive - to gay men in particular - it breached the t&c's of the site. Apologies to those who took the time to comment, especially Neilh who contributed a poem.

Islam at its best
8 Dec 2013

@User 4549 , your last post with the same title 'Islam at its best' turned out to be a hoax for which you apologised. In your new post, some Muslims broke the law and were jailed for doing so. So why is this Islam at its best? I have already had complaints about racism on this forum and I am concerned about the tone of your posts and where you intend these posts to go.

Sorry @FredBassett , I really don't see anything wrong with what @Sbooty has started here and what @Brazilnut has contributed to in this thread. The regeneration and the new strand are the things people are discussing at the moment and I don't want to censor or delete posts just because people disagree on things. It wouldn't be much of a forum if people were not allowed to disagree...

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