Why the censorship?

[mercury]

Why are so many words censored? It doesn't make any sense. Everybody here is college-age or older and knows what letters would replace the **** anyway, and adding a space breaks the system and looks stupid.

On a similar note, why are some helpful resources censored? If CC had competing tools, I would say go for it, but in this case, allowing such links would only benefit people looking for that information.

[DoveofPeace]

College Confidential is designed for use by students, prospective students as well as parents, guardians and educators. Posts with swearing, vulgarity, sexual innuendo and similar things detract from the site's professionalism.

The sites that are censored are commercial sites or ones that have a record of promotional posting here.

[mercury]

Why block commercial sites that help students? It's one thing to delete promotional posting (that's why you have moderators), it's a whole other issue to say that I can't point a member to exactly what he's looking for.

[tanman]

What kind of sites are being censored? I still see links to sites that sell SAT Blue book answers, the online SAT course, ocassional links to useful material on the Kaplan and PR sites. The "censorship" (if you call it that) has gotten a lot better over the years - mods used to delete absolutely any link anyone posted. I remember a while back (~3 yrs ago?) that links to a Congressional report on SAT scores vs. family income and race were removed for violating the terms of service, which caused a big debate at the time.

[DoveofPeace]

I'm closing this thread because our courtesy guidelines request that concerns about moderation not be addressed on the boards. The best way to address such concerns is to contact the site owner, Roger_Dooley.