Editing Talk:Hospitality Club censorship (section)

== Less black and white please ==

I don't like the style of this article. It very much comes across as a personal thing, not a piece of factual information. We need more experiences, maybe even blind test statistics, that clearly point out the differences of legitimate spam filtering vs censorship, and the exact conditions for when a message is being delayed / censored / marked as spam in one or another network.

The examples are also not the best, imo.
* "Check out couchsurfing.com" really has no value beyond promoting this website. The equivalent would be to send "Check out skype, it's cool". Especially, if this is your first message to a person (which probably the HC spam checkers did not research).
* "Please send a message via couchsurfing.com, because I don't check my HC messages that often". That's already a very different story, because now the recommendation has a context and a practical use within that context. If you can find out that such messages are censored as well (or have been), bingo! You have proven a point. Otherwise, the statement of this article needs to be phrased more carefully.

What remains is the controversy of human spam checkers looking into someone's messages. It is an optional feature, but still, it is controversial.

Thanks, [[User:Lemon-head|Lemon-head]] 05:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)