>>>>It happens that I love baseball and discuss it here sometimes, usually with Tamar. If I were to work baseball into a million posts then that would be objectionable, too.
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>>>Then you would be asked to move it to sports category. You would agree and comply, of course. And we could then choose to read your sports posts or not as we like. Or, on the other-hand, we could just get irritated with your opinions about sport and ban all sports posts from the UT ... because, after all, this is a technical forum, not your personal sports, political, and music forum.
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>>Just make sure you don't throw out the baby with the bath water...
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>I agree with this principle. However, the dropping of this category was obviously done on the behest of one or more members who found it objectionable. However, the posts were (1) confined to a specific category which one can choose to read or not, and (2) the forum system allows one to filter out a members posts entirely. But it seems these two options were not sufficient and could not prevent us from reading these posts, responding to them, and taking offense with them. Apparently, we needed to totally shut the offender up, once and for all, because I am not capable of not-reading something and do not know how the twit filter works.

For the record, I am not among those who asked for the section or the poster to be removed (if there were any such people). I was about to apply a twit filter (first time ever) when Michel announced the demise of the section.