From the Creepy Inside Jokes Department

Mini, the BMW subset devoted to mini-coopers, has gone a bit 1984. Much of advertising deals with the fine line between personalizing advertising (usually to a specific demographic), losing your audience by being boring or irrelevant, and losing your audience by being downright creepy. Billboards that talk specifically to you are kinda cute in an "L.A. Story" sort of way (as the blog I linked mentions), but not having a billboard identify me personally by name while I'm driving down the highway wouldn't make me feel like I was "missing out." It's basically just another form of spam, only this one allows someone to read your name, stalk you to wherever you're going, and pretend that they've known you for years.

Not to mention it's distracting.

Well that's just great

When I first created this site, I added a forum for discussion. I didn't put in any censorship parameters because at the time, it was really just limited to me, my friends, and their friends. Then I forgot about it. Apparently, it turned into a giant repository for porn links. I have removed it, since that is not at all what I'd like to be associated with. I'm also planning to change over to blog software with which I can better monitor comments so this doesn't happen again (I found out because this blog was comment-spammed this morning). So if you see a few changes in the next few weeks, that's why.

In light of all this, I'd like to ask your opinion. Is censorship always bad? I don't like the idea of censoring people from communicating, but I realize that I am limiting people to "relevant topics" by ridding my site of spamvertising content. So is it bad?

Thanks!