The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93659   Message #1874821
Posted By: The Shambles
02-Nov-06 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Closed threads & deleted posts.
Subject: RE: BS: Closed threads & deleted posts.
No, nothing you've posted has been deleted. It takes quite a bit to warrant deletion - direct attacks on people, racism, stalking, or frequent multiple posts of the same messages.
-Joe Offer-


Could any state expect to be shown gratitude for judging and executing (on many occasions) the wrong person?

It may be expected that some responsibility is seen to be taken for these errors.

They may be expected to demonstrate what measures are being taken to ensure that the same errors are not repeated.

On our forum, posters are expected to be grateful to the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing team, when the same assurances (like the one above) given in editing comments by the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team are seen once again not to be honoured. For it is clear that it takes very little to warrant 'silent deletion' of the wrong contributions - as I have maintained and demonstrated previously.

There is no gratitude to be had - for trying to be 'fair' when the damage has been seen to be done - only blame and responsibilty to be taken for allowing the the damage to once again be done, with this policy of unfair and anonymous 'silent deletion'.

Why cannot every 'moderator' or edit button holder be required to indicate via an editing comment where they judged any form of editing action was necessary and all editing comments be limited to where some form of action has taken place?

I am sure this would ensure that any poster would then know that any non-appearance of their contribution was not due to 'silent deletion'. If they did not see an editing comment to that effect - they would not become paranoid about censorship and could then look for other explanations.

This may also have the effect of limiting these actions and bringing them under the control that is cleary not evident currently.