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== Moderation team ==
== Moderation team ==


BW's forum is moderated by the moderation team, which coordinates itself in a private and hidden group.
BW's forum is moderated by the moderation team, which coordinates itself in a private group.
Its creation date is unknown (though supposely happened in mid/late 2012) and its existance was not debated in the forum.
Its creation date is unknown (though supposely happened in mid/late 2012) and its existance was not debated in the forum.



Revision as of 03:17, 29 March 2013

BeWelcome is quite an open and transparent organization compared to CouchSurfing and Hospitality Club but one could say even here there are cases of censorship in BeWelcome.

Moderation team

BW's forum is moderated by the moderation team, which coordinates itself in a private group. Its creation date is unknown (though supposely happened in mid/late 2012) and its existance was not debated in the forum.

Deletions of posts

In March 2013, cross posted invitations to seek the duck (a toulousan event promoting BW) were deleted by a member of the moderation team. This opened a discussion about moderation.

It can easily be claimed that this incident itself is not censorship as only cross posts were deleted, and at least one of the post was kept which is less of a restriction of your freedom of speech.

Banning of members

In December 2012, Tim Loal, notorious (some would say infamous) for beeing vocal about the management of BW, was banned from the forums for 1 year. A protest group FREE TIM NOW ! was created.