Re: Overzealous forum moderation
- Posted by jaygade Apr 24, 2013
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BTW, how do you know that these posts have been deleted if they are gone before you can read them?
When I come to the forum, I click on the "recent" tab, which lists messages newest first regardless of thread. I read from the oldest unread message to the newest.
So I see a bunch of messages with a thread title, but when I click on the title I see "Invalid Post This post is invalid or has been removed."
I was the one doing it. The quality of the post was similiar to http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/119347.wc and I was going on the standard that personal attacks and name calling on this forum should not be tolerated.
However, I've decided, as a favor to you, to revive one of the posts as-is (they are all the same), so you may have the ability to judge that post on its own merits.
Here it is: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/121510.wc
I agree that the post you re-enabled is against the forum rules and should be removed or moderated based on its content. Maybe all of the ones are like that, not just in that thread. I don't know. I just happened to notice a pattern over the past few months of these "post removed" and many of them belonging to the same person.
I've done forum moderation before and I know it can be a tough job, but I also know that some people do abuse that position.
But in this case, my objection is the one without merit. My apologies.
