Censorship

[Seriak]

As defined

Censorship : deleting parts of publications or correspondence

It definitly is censorship, but definition aside I would just like to say I disagree with the practice of deleting posts without a explanation being given. Everyone gets off topic etc on occasion and my slightly sarcastic remark about a person's inclusion of tax into the savings one could make on their sale was far from worthy of deletion. When moderators do not require the extra step of an explanation, I believe they no longer think things through as they can just click "delete".

As for this board changing, I guess I chose my words wrong. The board is great, the members are great, I just find the rules a little too strict now. (Maybe the rules has always been in place, but until now I had never seen it used and I have seen quite a few posts worthy of deletion in years past far outweighing my little comment) I miss Bob's gruff attitude and grammar checks.

But like you say. Their forum, their rules! Live with it or go somewhere else.

I have said my peace.

Love you all!

[marie]

Originally Posted by Seriak

As defined

Censorship : deleting parts of publications or correspondence

It definitly is censorship, but definition aside I would just like to say I disagree with the practice of deleting posts without a explanation being given. Everyone gets off topic etc on occasion and my slightly sarcastic remark about a person's inclusion of tax into the savings one could make on their sale was far from worthy of deletion. When moderators do not require the extra step of an explanation, I believe they no longer think things through as they can just click "delete".

As for this board changing, I guess I chose my words wrong. The board is great, the members are great, I just find the rules a little too strict now. (Maybe the rules has always been in place, but until now I had never seen it used and I have seen quite a few posts worthy of deletion in years past far outweighing my little comment) I miss Bob's gruff attitude and grammar checks.

But like you say. Their forum, their rules! Live with it or go somewhere else.

I have said my peace.

Love you all!

You are a victim of history. Too many times, threads in the buy and sell went down in flames because some people strongly disagreed with the asking price...even though they never had any intention of buying

Now it's just easier to do away with all superfluous posts

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Seriak

As defined

Censorship : deleting parts of publications or correspondence

It definitly is censorship, but definition aside I would just like to say I disagree with the practice of deleting posts without a explanation being given. Everyone gets off topic etc on occasion and my slightly sarcastic remark about a person's inclusion of tax into the savings one could make on their sale was far from worthy of deletion. When moderators do not require the extra step of an explanation, I believe they no longer think things through as they can just click "delete".

As for this board changing, I guess I chose my words wrong. The board is great, the members are great, I just find the rules a little too strict now. (Maybe the rules has always been in place, but until now I had never seen it used and I have seen quite a few posts worthy of deletion in years past far outweighing my little comment) I miss Bob's gruff attitude and grammar checks.

But like you say. Their forum, their rules! Live with it or go somewhere else.

I have said my peace.

Love you all!

http://216.187.96.54/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24704

This is likely why the post was deleted. If its the post I,m thinking of. Please correct me if wrong. As already mentioned, there was to many problems with the buy/sell and postings. We were asked to correct this by members and came up with the policy that appears in the sticky at the top of the forums.

Those are just deleted, as they have no place in someone,s ads, as posted. Most other times, when posts are deleted, {they are usually moved first for discussion & not deleted}, the poster is notified why, either in the thread, {eg. post edited because of such & such} or by pm.

Hope that helps explain some of the policy and as the boss said, we dont get them all right and some are replaced. We just try follow the rules set down for posting by the board and many calls are straight foward but many are also tougher to call.

Thanks