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Whats up with Apple Communties Censorship?
- Thread starter Alex W.
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It would be prudent and logical to ask the person(s) who censored your post. There are strict guidelines at that website.
We’ve only got your word on that what you posted was not delete worthy.
Sorry, but context is everything.
I posted a reply saying that "on mac rumors we have a detailed thread" and covered some technical aspects of what we have discovered.
Mods were posting trying to downplay the fan noise as normal with every laptop which isn't true at all.
So I presented facts. I've read their terms of use it's completely subjective where they can delete anything they don't like.
It's obviously a censored forum I assume to prevent too much information or minimize potential damage on flawed product.
Put it this way, I've never come across a more censored forum then Apple communities.
Mods were posting trying to downplay the fan noise as normal with every laptop which isn't true at all.
So I presented facts. I've read their terms of use it's completely subjective where they can delete anything they don't like.
It's obviously a censored forum I assume to prevent too much information or minimize potential damage on flawed product.
Put it this way, I've never come across a more censored forum then Apple communities.
If what you're saying were the case, that anything other than downplaying the fan issue was grounds for censorship, it'd be happening to other people. The whole thread would have to go. Surely, there's something else at play here. Possibly unknowingly violating some obscure forum rule or something is a more likely scenario i would think. That or maybe someone maliciously reported your comment like Jerryk said. If you linked to another forum on that forum (like linking to the fan noise thread here), that also may have been a breaking of a rule.
Another possibility is maybe one of your posts in the thread came off too combative? I've seen some posts on some of those issue threads get pretty heated, especially with issues that not everyone experiences the same. They end up becoming arguments about whether someone actually is or isn't having the issue. I could be reading too much into it, but going off of what you're saying here and how you're wording it, it sounds like there's some residual frustration from the discussion you were having in that thread and that it did get argumentative. If keeping things civil is a rule on the forum, then i could see how getting a little too passionate with your presentation of the facts would get some of your comments removed.
Another possibility is maybe one of your posts in the thread came off too combative? I've seen some posts on some of those issue threads get pretty heated, especially with issues that not everyone experiences the same. They end up becoming arguments about whether someone actually is or isn't having the issue. I could be reading too much into it, but going off of what you're saying here and how you're wording it, it sounds like there's some residual frustration from the discussion you were having in that thread and that it did get argumentative. If keeping things civil is a rule on the forum, then i could see how getting a little too passionate with your presentation of the facts would get some of your comments removed.
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I have an account on Apple's community forum, but they pretty much will censor anything that makes them look bad. Thats why I don't go there. It's censored more than China is. 