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Message: [QUOTE="Orangepace, post: 688748, member: 322"] Preface: I don't tweet recruits. Not my thing. By tweeting someone, aren't you effectively tweeting the world, however, it just happens to be on someone's page? I liken tweeting at someone to bumping into them... By doing it in an open forum it's no different because all get to see what the interaction consists of. In that sense, I don't think it violates any recruiting rules. When a person DM's through twitter or some other social media, the conversation now exists purely between 2 people. In that sense I would think DM'ing is truly the violation because you're directly in contact. This is different from tweeting on an open page, because the tweeter is effectively communicating with more than just a recruit and is actually just speaking at a recruit and other people. Still, why would the mods of this site feel the need to police against personas who tweet a recruit in the open forum? If you can devise a way to crack down on members of this forum who DM a recruit, I stand behind that. I also am fine with a mod of the board openly posting a banner on the board stating their position. But to crack down and BAN members of a forum is somewhat ridiculous. This is a forum, not an open community. The mods were not voted in by the forum members. I may be wrong, but I didn't get the impression that joining this forum meant that I essentially was bowing down to those in power. I joined with the impression that I was an equal with a mod, however, they were mods because they prefer to keep the forum clean (no open distasteful remarks or attacks) and lively. In return for all the members being here, the mods are able to generate traffic and post ads to cover the costs. I never had a vote on the ads that constantly pop up in the corners of the forum, nor would I want to, hence I am ok with the mods being mods. But to think I may have to beg a mod at any point in time to be here is just ridiculous. If this forum is going to turn down this path, I'm seriously going to have to re-evaluate my priorities here because I don't believe the mods have the authority to be policing members of a forum. [/QUOTE]

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