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Originally Posted by mattylad
As an outsider here & not having taken part or seen the thread concerned, I'd say if a mod or admin of a forum deleted it because it had potential to cause problems for the forum or their owners then I'm afraid that it would just have to be lived with & I would.
Although the forums (whichever they may be, wherever on the web) are "for" the users they are run by the administration team & their decisions have to be accepted otherwise there is no point in having any moderation.
Decisions can often differ between different moderators, especially if they do not have a set of specific guidelines to follow.
Expecting a mod to spent the time to chop & change threads, delete messages from them when the whole thread can be deleted because it contains potential troublesome posts can be asking a lot from a mod.
If this site does not already have a separate admin/mod only area to move troublesome posts into then it would be highly advised to do so, having been an admin of another site I found this most useful, especially for allowing the mods to temporarily move the thread there while a final decision was sought or changes made.
Auto pruning if available can clear out the forum after a set period.
As users, does it really matter if a thread is removed? do you really lose anything?
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In principle I concur with your opinion and the use of an admin/mod area seems sensible.
However, the reason for this thread in the first place was a sudden disapearence of a posting and then another whole thread, so that those who posted did not know (A) why they had been deleted and (B) what they had done / written that was wrong.
Or had somebody squeeled that they did not want to see words or the thread itself or the moderator had made an executive decision and simply deleted it. Without some explanation, albeit without further discussion or prolonged arguement, we could all assume anything up to political underhandedness..
If threads can be removed at will without reasoning, then why have a site in the first place? A Read-Only website would do!
A simply PM saying why...would be quite satisfactory, its not actually rocket-science.