It doesn't matter what I think about them.
There's no reason why people can't post them and no reason why people can't discuss them. If they're bullshit, then there'd be plenty of posters to point it out. It's the same in all the subforums. These updates are the latest Kane news, it's for the posters to handle. They're entitled to see it, and if the forum can save them the trouble of having to scope them out elsewhere then it's all the better.
We can't censor information. It's not our place to, and that's not changing any time soon.
The issue is not about resisting 'censoring information'...that's overly dramatic.
It's a question of signal-to-noise. As you know, most social media - and twitter in particular - are swamped with attention-seeking, made-up, inflammatory and just plain BS posts. It's famous for it and it's what social media does. And if that's your thing, then that's cool and you can go on twitter etc and fill yer boots.
Hitherto, BM is not like that. It's a more specialised forum for fans of City, some of whom actually know each other from matches etc and accordingly the posts on here tend to be higher quality / have more knowledge behind them / are a little less BS-y than what you get on twitter (yes, even Worsleyweb's...). They have a better signal-to-noise ratio.
But when the site starts getting inundated with unfiltered repeats of twitter BS, and then responses to them, the ratio starts changing, and soon all we'll be left with is a site that's a poor copy of twitter, with the same BS and attention-seeking posts swamping the higher-quailty content from actual real City fans who have something interesting to say.
At the end of the day it's your (Ric's) site to do with as he pleases; you might not particularly care about the quality of the content as much as the volume of it. That's a legit pov to take. But to just throw yer hands up and say 'it's up to other posters to handle' is short-sighted. These decisions do actually have consequences for the kind of site you'll be modding in the future.
