More Silencing at Golden Silents

Newer members of Golden Silents Message Board have written in telling me that instead of being outright banned, instead they have been locked out with a sneaky password change on the administrator's end.

Golden Silents also touts this new header: Currently this is a private board and is not accepting new members at this time. Sorry, please try again in the future. - Jill, Administrator

So much for free speech!

Historian Thad Komorowski: Banned

Noted animation historian and critic Thad Komorowski has now been banned from Golden Silents. All Thad did was post a link to this blog. The thread was deleted, and that was that. But apparently providing an image of the now-gone thread was too much for Jill, so a few hours later, Thad found himself banned. Too bad they will not have your expertise, Thad!

Update from "Sumit"

Banned member "Sumit" has emailed me and thankfully saved the text from his post at the Golden Silents "Welcome New Members" thread. It read as follows:

Hello friends,

In my old country we see the old mute films over the air waves. Me and friends would have to make up voices for people in the movies.

I will pray to lord Vishnu that I am welcome on this web site.

good luck bros


Thank you for sharing, Sumit. (Warning--sarcasm to follow) How harmful of you, Sumit! :-)

Censorship runs rampant at Golden Silents

A fellow member came across this blog and apparently posted a thread about it over at the forum.

Guess what, his thread is now GONE! Who would have thought?

Thanks for the heads up, "Thad"

"TMK" Tim, please come forward!

I found this while searching old blogs.

tmk said...

I was banned from Golden Silents a few months ago. I had the audacity to call Jill on her defense of McCarthyism. I honestly think that she is actually losing her marbles! I still occassionally read the posts there, just to see what weirdness she's currently peddling. This morning she topped herself! It caused a backlash from even some of her longtime members; one (damfino) even cancelled her membership! That thread had been removed by late afternoon.

Tim

Andrew's Story

A former Golden Silents member came across this blog and wanted to share his story.

"Ddhandarah" joined in December 2007 and tells me he contributed a lot to the board.





"DD" was 'controversial' from the start. Here he is, among others, sharing his personal opinions and being poo-pooed for it.







and...







So what got Ddhandarah banned? Apparently... "asking why a youtube video of a song from the Howl's Moving Castle soundtrack was "amateurish""
Where is the logic in that, asks Nan?





Funny anecdote on the side: DD read my story about Sumit and has this to say in his email as well... "i'm half korean and i still can't tell the difference between some asians". This proves my hunch that it could only have been prejudice that got Sumit banned.

I could not log in after this:

Apparently an Asian man named Sumit joined the forums and posted a few things while I was offline. The reaction by the forum disturbed me a bit. I posted in-between the two posts from Jill, it has now been deleted. I simply asked "What happened?".



The thread continues:

Clearly the man could not speak English well. When other languages are translated into English, obviously the "tone" is lost... Should that segregate him?









Sadly, the following posts no longer exist:

Jill:
He actually had me laughing like crazy with those posts but I suspected that after 100 posts praying to Vishnu and ending in "good luck, bro" that everyone would be ready for the kill.

And I knew he was a fake too because he couldn't tell that the little boy in the YouTube video playing the uke and singing I'm Yours (which has close to 10 million hits on it!) was Japanese. Anyone supposedly from Asia could tell that. He said he was Chinese. Red flags went up. After watching 2 trillion Japanese films this year I recognize a Japanese person a mile away.

Nan:
Not everyone has seen 100 Japanese films and can tell the difference. There are many areas of asia, where people look black or indian. I don't think all Asians would know what each other looks like
Maybe this person just could not communicate clearly?

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I could not log in after this. Could I have been banned for defending someone's ethnicity? If you read between the lines, there is an air of racism in this situation. I urge Sumit to come forward and tell his story.

Funny Comment by Darren

My story at Golden Silents is not complete, but I thought I'd share this funny comment I found in a search.

http://www.groupsrv.com/movie/about62351.html

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:10 am
Guest
Quote:
Time to celebrate with.. HIC!!! more booze! :-X


Darren
(Ooo. What's this nudie film doing here on eBay?!?!?! Time to bid!!!)

Just in case anyone is wondering I was joking when I said the above.

Using that same comment just got me banned from the "Golden Silents" php
forum run by Jill Bond, who seems to me to not have much of a sense of
humor.


Darren

Christians- Responsible with money?

Jill:
When even CHRISTIANS (who are supposed to be good stewards of the money God gives them) are having the same financial problems as the rest of the world AND are unwilling to change and be frugal, there's not much hope for the rest of the country.

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Nan:
I'm a Christian, what in G_Ds name does that have to do with money?

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This was immediately erased.

Music and Prudence

Nan:
Re: Karaoke
« Reply #15 Today at 12:06am »


My favorite tune on the karaoke thingamabob my son has is "Do ya want my body" by Rod Stewart, that man is A-dorable!

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Jill
Isn't that song kind of raunchy for a grandmother?


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Re: Karaoke
« Reply #17 Today at 12:16am »


Remember Jill, grandmothers are just antique young girls! I was quite the disco queen in my 50s

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Apparently mentioning anything that suggests sexuality is questionable!

How it all began

Note to readers: I am using saved text when actual posts no longer exist. 

Re: Welcome Thread For New Members!

« Result #15 on Dec 21, 2009, 10:57pm »

Long Time (I mean since the 1940s and 50s) silent film fan here, I remember seeing old time movie "traveling showman" performances in the various towns where I spent the first two or three decades of my life. Then with the advent of television, silents had a new rebirth as they filled timeslots when there was little programming to fill the airwaves! Big time Chaplin, Keaton, and Sweedie fan. Also a big time fan of the "olde time" cartoons like Farmer Gray.

Hello

Hello folks, an introduction. I've been a silent film fan for decades and was just recently given a computer. I figured I would go on the internet and start looking up some favorite films of mine, and that is when I began finding message boards for fans. One such was Golden Silents. I joined, posted many items, both related to film and to my personal life. It seemed to be a very friendly community, sort of like a "knitting group". Then I was banned, and I have been trying to figure out why. I have saved many of my posts which have now been deleted from the message board.

The purpose of this blog is to expose what I find to be an "elitist" nature of this community peppered with subtle racism and intolerance for dissenting opinions. Who ever thought that a group of film fans would behave like a country club? I hope you enjoy the posts and if you are also a banned member of Golden Silents Message Board, I encourage you to come forward and share your story.

~Nan