QRZ: A Message to Our Members About Politics

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I can safely presume without looking
that some posters will be testing the edge of the envelope.

And I can't wait to hear whether the new rules are enforced without bias.

That's my gut feeling... it won't. If they are TRULY going to be unbiased, then good on them. The issue is that we don't even need the gov to suppress speech at this point. We have naval gazing serfs that willingly line up for boxcars
 
Free speech and open discussion are slowly being eliminated in this country.

We are seeing podcasters lose advertisers for saying the wrong thing. Youtubers are self-censoring openly on their channels now.

Someday important shit will need to be widely communicated to the masses and there will be no one willing to do it for fear of the woke mob!
 
I can't wait to hear whether the new rules are enforced without bias.
That's my gut feeling... it won't. If they are TRULY going to be unbiased, then good on them.
The real cherry on top is that it's forbidden to drop a dime
on bannitated posts that were "overlooked".

The obvious brush-back pitch on that
would be to establish an independent (non-QRZ hosted)
journal where anyone can list pointers to political speech on QRZ
that the QRZ moderators have overlooked.
  1. It's none of QRZ's business telling you how you're allowed to criticize them on your own site.
  2. Either they learn to track the journal and stamp out those "overlooked" transgressions, or the journal of bias grows without bounds; how embarrassing.

OTOH, assuming that the site hasn't been delivering value to the owners
because of uncivil or overwhelming political user posts.

If the owners really do want that all to go somewhere else,
then moderators who display blind spots in their editorial actions
may get weeded out of the cadre.


Now, I bet QRZ political purse-fights
have made NES disagreements look like small potatoes.

Hell, a lot of it may be off-topic political arguments
by people too stupid to find existing
online fora that are intended for that.

And I won't deny QRZ's owners the right to determine the charter of their site.

Imagine if NES was some big-time archery or fishing site,
and there were no egregious on-topic political issues:
no fishing license/regulatory bitching,
no butthurt over crossbow bans.

If some clique camped out on a site like that and turned it into
some permanent floating sh!t-show about abortion
that was driving away high school clubs, etc. -
well it wouldn't be a shocker if the site owner started swinging the hammer.

How can a forum about something heavily regulated by the FEDS not have political dialog? Talk about cucks cuckolding.
Heh. Just today us locals were reminded that
mandatory station radiation exposure evaluations
must be completed before next Monday;
and that licensees would no longer be grandfathered
under simplified "meh, if it's low power you're good to go" regs.

My reaction is, "yeah, I'll jump right on that as soon as I hear that
Bureau of Voltage, Static, and Swear-Words operators
are rappelling from black helicopters to check papers down the street".

QRZ.....the leftist, cancel culture echo chamber of ham radio. I woukdn't piss on them if they were on fire.
In other news, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie,
but I wouldn't know, because my primary use of QRZ Forums
is once (once) every few months to browse to see what the new Peak Stupid is.

(One time when I was up in HRO/Salem,
some customer tried to explain to management of
the (dozen-store nationwide chain) how to run their business.

The manager basically told the customer,
in front of everybody else in the store,
to go get a clue.

I spied the malcontent's call sign badge,
and when I got home discovered that lo and behold
he was one of the top 1-zone noise emitters on QRZ Forums [rofl]

ETA: Hurr-durr-hurr-durr hurr-hurr-durr-hur).
 
After poking around, I couldn't figure out how to delete my account and remove me from their mailing lists, so it made sense to open a support ticket (from qrz.com, contact, top item is help desk, other) to ask them how to do it.

If you also don't know how to delete your account, it seems like it's the sort of thing you might want to know going forward.
 
How can a forum about something heavily regulated by the FEDS not have political dialog? Talk about cucks cuckolding.

Heavily Regulated would be what I would call a gross exaggeration. Not to mention in most cases either party will sell out hams or other people at the drop of a
hat anyways when the .gov is involved. Although at one point, when it comes to regulatory shit, you are right- and the POLITICAL tenor of whatever retards get assigned to the FCC may
affect things somewhat.
 
Now, I bet QRZ political purse-fights
have made NES disagreements look like small potatoes.

Hell, a lot of it may be off-topic political arguments
by people too stupid to find existing
online fora that are intended for that.

And I won't deny QRZ's owners the right to determine the charter of their site.

That's been a huge problem past decade on most ham and CB sites or faceplant pages. Someone asks a technical question and it turns into ORANGE MAN BAD or some other
bullshit. that's probably why they're going in that direction. Some guy is asking about how to build an L network for an antenna or some shit and then some guy comes in and starts jumping around in a circle, shitting and pissing and jumping around while spitting, about ORANGE MAN BAD and its somehow Trumps fault that you had to build your own antenna (by some flimsy string theory tied to ORANGE MAN BAD). [rofl]
 
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