yes Joe it is gone, I was trying to comment on it but it dissappeared. It was called "No longer a widow" or something like that.

ok joe i figured it out. Floyd closed his account about 12 minutes ago
I think they UTOMtically pull posts started by people who close their accounts. I am guessing he got upset about what some people were saying.

I think that someone closed his account FOR him. There have been some bad feelings between Floyd and another member for weeks now. it's too bad, too. We can disagree without being disagreable, can we not??.........Joe....:-)

I thought we could, but perhaps I am niave!

DS temporarily closed Floyd's account because they claim he continues to violate their rules.

I personally didn't view in his no longer a widow post where he violated anything.

After posting this reply, I assume I'll be the next to be shut down.

Blessings to you all in case I get hit with the "poof" wand.

Debbie

I was looking for this as well, I am glad that I made Floyd my Face book friend just this morning. All this just doesn't seem quite right.

I have a BIG problem with the censorship aspect of all of this. I felt that the discussion that Floyd started was a very relevant and important one, even though I took the position of the minority on the issue.

The point is that we are all different in our approach to our own situations. Listening to others gives us the scope of seeing things from a different perspective. To disagree is perfectly O.K. And even if it gets a little bit personal, we are adults, and we have the option of just ignoring certain threads or certain people.

But I believe that everyone's feelings and opinions are VALID. To remove them because someone got pissed off or got their feelings hurt is not acceptable to me. And there were many posts on the thread in question that I thought raised excellent points, and they are gone as well. Including mine.

Finally, I generally put some time and effort into my posts, and I resent them being indiscriminately removed over such trivial reasons. Just my opinion, folks. Nothing more. Nothing less.......Joe...:-)

Hey lets see if I can piss them off.

'Tis gone and I know who did it. Same rat that removed a discussion I started. It was remoned due to contorvercial comments made by two other people. What the hell happened to freedom of speech? Kaaren

If you would like to continue the conversation we were trying to have on the thread that was removed, please check out "widow or wife, widower or husband" that is why I posted it.

You know we could always go en masse to facebook... lol...they don't shut ya down for anything...even when it should be...And I happen to know Floyd is there...he's friended me over there a couple weeks ago......just sayin'

Floyd's account is still open - he himself updated his status line to read "account closed" which he couldn't do if he were suspended or banned. He's still here.

Only the DS Admin staff can close an account or remove a thread. Members and CLs do not remove threads and cannot close accounts.

Hi cliffskat:

You know, while I have no way of telling, if all that you are saying is true, I am just real curious as to why the whole discussion thread got removed and by whom? Was it Floyd? It seems to me that someone had to have been upset and reported it to those who are empowered to have it removed.

This is the third thread that DS has taken off on us, and I don't think I am alone when I say that it is not a very good thing to do. And I resent it. We NEED to be able to express ourselves honestly and openly. If not here, where?........Joe....:-)

Are you freakin serious, his got booted for that post? There wasn't a dam thing wrong with what he said. I didn't find one thing offensive about it when I read it this morning. Wow, is there anyway that a different web sight can be formed where we wouldn't have to deal with this crap?

No he wasn't booted - he's still here