Editing BeWelcome censorship (section)

== Removal of posts ==

* In March 2013, invitations to Seek the duck (a toulousan event promoting BW) were  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting cross posted] 39 times. Groups and forum were then displayed on the same page, and some members have perceived an irritating disruption of all other on-going threads of the forum. After several days of crossposting, 39 copy-pastes of the same message were eventually deleted by a member of the moderation team because there was a clear infraction of Forum & Groups rules. This opened a debate [http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s5417] about many topics including moderation. Local members later reposted [http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s5378 the message] in their groups, and it was  made sticky, which made it very visible for a while, but the moderation team has not changed the ruling about the infraction to the rules. It can easily be claimed that this incident itself is not censorship as only 39 repeatition of the very same message were deleted, and the original post was kept, which some consider as less of a restriction of your freedom of speech.

* In June 2013, [http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s7625 Concerns on censorship/moderation] a forum post by Puneet, about his deleted forum post that contained an offtopic unsolicited offer of his professional services for money in a local group forum.