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Censorship is something that someone do when he is in state of fear.
Not at all! In our case it is just a consequence of a spamming behavior.
Originally, ICMS was not banned at all here, as you can see from this post from April 2008:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=286106#forumpost286106But we've realized that ICMS people were here to promote ICMS, to lure our users and developers, and to cause trouble by "throwing more wood to the fire":
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=286178#forumpost286178 First, we've edited the posts.
When this didn't stop, we've banned the users.
But they kept coming back - under different names. So finally we had to act and and we've asked them to leave us alone, and censored ICMS name:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=286220#forumpost286220As I said before: the only thing what we did was to censor the name due to past violations of our Terms of Use.
As we did and will do with any other spam. Nobody can be "above the law". Spam is a spam, regardless of what you promote.
And these few links above are just the tip of the iceberg. You've been here since 2009 so you don't know the whole story, but as you can see from few other comments in this thread, there are other people who don't want to go back to the fights and useless discussions we had in the past.
If the situation changes in the future, we will be glad to re-evaluate it, but recent posts on ICMS and outside of ICMS don't justify it at the moment.
Again, this Website is dedicated to support and promote XOOPS, and we need to stay focused. There are very important releases coming up, there is TONS of work to be done for XOOPS, and we are better off if we focus on making XOOPS the best it can be instead of worrying about other projects.