There is a difference between spouting racist nonsense and discussing race issues, by blanket banning race topics you actually play into the hands of racists on the one hand who will cry foul and you will also deny minorities or people of the races in question their right to represent themselves in the subject, which of itself is racist.

I suspect the old UP days are over, this is a UK managed site and lacks the simple crudity/crudeness of the other US one.

Interestingly enough we were almost self moderating, in that people who espoused stupid or blatantly foul ideas managed to stir up debate and in many cases we gained something from it. The spam was a small price to pay for honest if sometimes distasteful discourse.

All hail the anodyne.

Will give muzzlefree a whirl, but as Seb says, I don't see much point in it, maybe the old dog has had its day.