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In Reply to: Re: It's a judgement call posted by Joseph on August 29, 2003 at 07:02:03:
"But, I do want to make a point that my posts seem to get deleted (or are considered for deletion) probably more often than posts by any other reasonably sane person who visits this site. That is the main reason why I almost never post here unless someone brings my name up in a thread."
For the record you are not the most deleted person here. Not even close to it. Let's not get into who's sane by how much and by what measurement, because that isn't normally the first consideration for whether or not to delete the post :-) It has to do with offensive posts and content going strongly against our policies.
"Regarding Sam, I was saying a year ago on this very board, what a whole lot of people are saying about him now."
Believe me, I appreciate your predicament, wanting to talk about things without being able to get into details or even mention a person's name in a way that it would be unfair to him since he is not able to speak up. I'm there too. Plus, I can't or don't want to speak up about many things, just because of the weight (or stigma) attached, being a coordinator here.
"But, you'd never know it to look back in the archives. I mean, every single post I wrote for two months?"
Again, many were removed at YOUR request.
Perhaps all you wrote about then was in reponse to posts which had to be removed?
Like on your site, we don't edit posts. The content in the posts posted here are the responsibilitiy of the poster (publisher). So that leaves us with the single remaining (and sometimes unpopular) option of deleting, when content is unsuitable, in part or in whole.
You must surely appreciate how difficult it is to delete only one post or selected posts in a thread, when they are part of a complex system of replies to points brought up in preceding posts, etc. Many of these posts don't stand alone. You know how it is - it's a lot simpler to delete entire threads - I'm sure you've done it before. That it simply what happened here. Sometimes posts can be completely OK, but for one mention of one name, we have to delete it. The banned person requested we remove some posts based on certain complaints, you requested we remove some posts based on other complaints, the coordinators decided to remove some posts based on other criteria, none of the remaining were stand-alone posts that could be allowed to stay on, and they all got snipped. It's that simple.
With situations like the one we had, we had to delete because we didn't want to have a lingering situation where people are reading about an alleged incident, and the matter isn't up for discussion anymore.
"Then, I pipe up about it again, a year later in the middle of a whole firestorm of posts about the same subject, and I'm the one who gets his
chain yanked."
Apologies for yanking any chains. Pipe in all you want. Your comments are welcome - you have some important things to say, I for one would like to hear them, but please try to stay sufficiently vague about that alleged incident and the names of the people involved.
"I hate to sound paranoid.. but... hey."
Well, maybe you are a bit on the paranoid side. We don't have that "itching to delete" attitude towards you, haven't discussed that idea, nor do the records show that to be a likely statistical trend.
You've posted a lot of content that you thought we'd delete just because it was unfavourable towards us, but never did.
You know, I really would like to hear more of what you have to say about this subject, but this delete sore point was only brought up in reference to the banned person not being able to interject his version of an alleged incident, etc... OK I'm repeating myself...
Peace!
