This past Thursday was yet again a very successful two sessions of Pimp Your Post Thursday. The show where people get to come on share their posts and meet others. Some great laughs are had. Strong connections between people occur and I usually always learn something about the great people on Steem.

Here’s the video from the morning session:

Some excellent posts were shared. Something that hasn’t happened up until this show is someone coming on who seems more intent on presenting a controversial argument than summarizing and presenting their post.

Dealing With Difficult Subjects

We’ve had difficult subjects presented and talked about during PYPT. The people who have presented them have done so in a manner that recognized what they were presenting could be controversial and were ready to have a respectful discussion after they had summarized their post and some had take a quick look at it.

Blacklibertario (his screen name) didn’t attempt to give a summary of his controversial topic. I listened until I realized he was attempting to use the show to present his argument. At that point I intervened and put a stop to it. We moved on in the voice chat but I was aware the discussion was taking place in the the text chat. I wasn’t able to follow that and didn’t try to. There are moderators present who will step in if needed.

I moved to the next presenter. At some point, one of the mods did kick him from the chat. I don’t know what triggered it but I do know that mod well enough to know she is not quick to take action unless she feels the situation is likely to escalate.

False Claims of Censorship and Banning

Today I found out that that Blacklibertario is making claims that he was banned and that he was censored. Well, he was never banned. My channel logs show that pretty clearly when I checked them. There was a kick, not a ban.

As for the claims of censorship. Last I checked, I have expected all my guests to present their post by summarizing the post. How exactly is it censorship when a guest fails to do so and is stopped from hijacking the show for his own purposes?

I realize that it seems at times anyone who feels they haven’t been able to do what they want claims censorship. My understanding of censorship is the attempt to remove awareness of the material from possible public consumption.

That raises some more questions for me… like if I was censoring him, why would I have even commented that people were free to read his post and draw their own conclusions?

And even more importantly, if I wanted to censor him and his content, why would I have left (and continue to leave) that post up in the pypt-attendee-only channel in the Steemit Discord? Below is the screenshot of the post which went up there on Monday Apr. 23rd.

I don’t agree with his arguments. They may be true in his mind. I however will stack my four decades of life experience as a woman against his two decades of life to reach my conclusions.

That, however, was not why he was stopped from arguing his case. The show is about presenting posts. Not debating instead of presenting.

This was bound to happen at some point. It has, and we’ll move on from it.

The rest of the show went really well.

The evening was busy with many posts on a wide variety of topics were presented. Many laughs and chats were enjoyed.

I want to take this opportunity to thank not only all the regular guests but the team who often works almost unnoticed to keep things on track. @sgt-dan has taken on keeping track of who is in the queue and who is up next. @thekittygirl is one of the mods who is an absolute treasure when it comes to helping folks getting setup and coming up with links to resources as the discussion goes on. @battleaxe isn’t always around but when she is she is a vigilant mod. @seablue is another help during the show and has at times guest hosted for me. A big thank you to all of you.

The next Pimp Your Post Thursday is, of course, Thursday at 11am & 7pm EDT or 3pm & 11pm UTC. Come on and join us.

Conclusion

Don’t forget, you can visit the Steemit Ramble discord at anytime. I encourage you to visit the Curation channel where other curators on the platform share their curation posts. You’ll find some excellent posts to read in those curation posts. Pimp Your Post Thursday attendees can add their posts to their own channel.

You can nominate others posts in the #nominate-someones-post channel. If I use your nomination in the Steemit Ramble, a periodic curation post I do, then you can nominate your own posts in #nominate-your-post channel.

There is a growing reference section containing posts of value on the platform and about writing. Writing is a craft and one we want to do well when producing content on the platform

If you are too busy to share, there is a post promotion channel. I might look in there some day. Steemit is about sharing and building community.