Dice Censorship Blog

Dice Censorship Blog

Monday, October 3, 2011

Users frustrated by Dice.com censorship

Dice.com admins have started banning IP addresses in addition to simply terminating accounts. The IP bans are trivial to work around but appear to be intended to block some of us from viewing the message boards in addition to merely posting to them.


Here are some more mirrored posts: one current thread and another older thread.
http://dicecensorship.blogspot.com/p/users-talking-about-dice-censorship.html

In the "old days" it used to be that Dice members only had cause to complain about censored words, as can be seen in the link above. These older posts can still be found on dice, the fact of certain words being censored was not a secret. This word blacklist was often arbitrary, such as when dice discussions blacklisted the word "monkey". However everyone's opinion was generally welcome. Whole threads were rarely ever censored for their content, unless they were very abusive.

That all changed in 2011, now users merely speaking their opinions can incur the wrath of moderators, who send threatening warnings via personal notification. Users who ignore the hostile threats by posting one's opinion anyways (without breaking any forum rules) can result in being banned from Dice.com. Dice are no longer interested in open discussion, which is a shame.

In one of the posts above, walterbyrd suggested that the indeed.com forum may be an alternative place for IT pros to collaborate without censorship. I welcome other suggestions.

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