Of course you wouldnt agree with the CPA. You agree with Nalin de Silva, Weerawansa, Ranawaka and Gamanpila. Would Goebels ever agree with Orwell?

To expect the CPA to publish your views as recommendations for a fair and just Sri Lanka is like expecting your newspaper Daily News, to publish any views that are at odds with the Rajapakse Chinthanaya.

I don’t agree with CPA. I don’t agree with Sanjana on a lot of things. The content is (naturally) skewed towards CPA politcal positions since CPA-types are the majority of contributors.

There is no such thing as an unmoderated forum. All public spaces come with rules and minders. However, this is a decent enough public space (for now) and the best way that those who disagree vehemently with the CPA and Sanjana and anyone else here can subvert them all is to USE this space.

My contention is that the CPA represents a flawed political line which has lost out in the larger political domain but is still an irritant thanks to privileged positioning in society and of course it’s edge in English. If the CPA provides access to its territory to its detractors, if those who are against the CPA possess the weapons that the CPA uses and if these can be used effectively within the rules that the CPA sets for combat then by all means we should fight the good fight.

If and when the CPA closes shop to dissenting views, the CPA will indict itself as a hypocritical outfit.

Either way, it is, to my mind, a win-win situation to those who do not subscribe to the CPA’s views.

So, thanks CPA and Sanjana and whoever else runs this show. I appreciate.

I know InfoShare’s planning something for to restart Moju, even if it’s not going to be called by that name again. Moderation takes up much more time than you anticipate, and it is a thankless job.

Part time volunteer moderators are hard to come by frankly – I know that The Lanka Academic forums rely on a few moderators who do have day job, but speaking to one of them in the early days of setting up the forum, I found that they had grossly underestimated the time it would eat up, and indeed, the levels of insanity they would be dealing with.

Indi’s post today is an interesting one in light of the discussions here – http://www.indi.ca/2007/02/ethic-of-comment-moderation/

Sanjana

As someone who has created your very own blog entry for those who have been censored from Groundviews, by the sentiments in your blog and earlier on Moju that overwhelmingly bored to death your readers but also denigrate InfoShare, CPA, myself and other authors, your confounded farrago of doubts and fears regarding the “spoofing” incident on Moju for which you still hold me erroneously responsible and your inability to actually fully comprehend that which is posted online (as those of us who have read you for over 1 1/2 years know full well) do not work in your favour when you post comments on Groundviews that only seek to further a parochial agenda on a website that was set up for more constructive, progressive dialogue.

Accordingly, while you do not go into Akismet by default, I assure you that I will only publish your comments that engage in more than a passing manner with the content in the original author’s post.

On the rare occasion on Moju, as I recall, you came up with a brilliant turn of phrase, a question or insight that changed the course of the debate. I look forward to more of that and less of your tired tirades.

as with all censorship this one is also highly arbitrary and subjective.

as for who really engaged in posting of spoof and scurrilous comments in moju and against whom, please read that blog ( if you can find it in an internet cache). and judge for yourself. read the thread on ‘call for immediate action on trincomalee situation’ in particular and esp the admin’s and sanjana hattotuwa’s responses to such comments.

Ryan, glad to see you posting here and without the expletives. Looking forward to your posts and comments. Sanjana or any moderator is ofcourse within his rights to delete posts that contain expletives or don’t meet guidelines if submission guidelines have been drawn up.

That which seems to have escaped you – that Groundviews was my idea, that I developed along with CPA and InfoShare, which I oversee and is not the first initiative I’ve launched to explore the potential of ICT for Peacebuilding, – is actually in the public domain.

I point you to my blog – http://ict4peace.wordpress.com – for more details on the evolution of Groundviews and other ideas for peacebuilding that I’m in the process of developing.

Sanjana