many of my ideas are off the cuff and flying by the seat of my pants types of ideas..

I get that.

that post might be automatically shadow banned for two hours or whatever

That could work. It wouldn't be removed, just in queue. Not sure if that's where the founders wan'o go, but if Mag ever gets around to making another website (which he keeps telling me he wants to do), this would be a good idea to incorporate.

if in that period of time certain selected users flag that post as spam or as undesirable, then it gets shadow banned for ever.

Who would be selected? Admins and mods, regulars, elected officials?

yes, it is censorship, but for example you must remember the links to how to make $90k per day bullshit.. those links in those posts probably contain viruses and those should be quarantined for the safety of other users.

I don't label removing spam as censorship, because spam buries real speech, and is thus the true censorship. It's actually a tactic used by trolls.

dont try to be the next reddit or facebook

I entirely agree with that. We need competition, but we also need innovation.

do you know, my opinion is that the best system for a united states forum would be one that actually verifies it's users individually

I think I talked with Magnora about so'm like that; manual verification is a good idea if you don't care about the forum staying small.

and instead of typed messages the posts consist of audio

That's in interesting idea, and someone should definitely do it, but I don't personally like it; talking causes more anxiety.

btw, i almost died last night

What happened? I hope you're okay...

it is nice to make your acquaintance, miss amelia may.

Thank you! Nice to meet'yo too, specialsauces!