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Subject: At what instances will moderators delete threads?

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I can see through windows.

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Like they always say, "You mess with the Helix Nebula, you get the WinyPit82."

Hi there! be sure to click that homepage link!

I want to know what makes a moderator do such a thing.

After all, you lock them for reference!

For the record, I have seen only 3-4 threads deleted.
1 of them was to do with something that I WON'T tell. The rest were MLP threads...bad ones...

[Edited on 11.03.2011 3:48 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 1:19 PM PDT

Best of random chance

Read the rules, too lazy to link you there.

  • 11.03.2011 1:23 PM PDT

Really bad threads.

  • 11.03.2011 1:26 PM PDT
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13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.

I've only seen it happen once.

It was awful, let's just say that.

  • 11.03.2011 1:27 PM PDT

cockburnicus@live.com
New Flood

The only one that springs to mind is the one where every post was reported.

  • 11.03.2011 1:33 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Ever seen the frustration of a graffiti artist, tagger, or vandal with spray paint when they encounter a teflon coated wall?

Everything they put on it slides off to the ground. All of their effort, their planning, their work, their statement "that everyone will see and know that I exist" ends up.... no where. No one sees it.

Hopefully such denial of reward and recognition can encourage them to find a more appropriate and positive avenue for their energies and desire for attention/recognition.

  • 11.03.2011 1:36 PM PDT
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wat
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Ever seen the frustration of a graffiti artist, tagger, or vandal with spray paint when they encounter a teflon coated wall?

Everything they put on it slides off to the ground. All of their effort, their planning, their work, their statement "that everyone will see and know that I exist" ends up.... no where. No one sees it.

Hopefully such denial of reward and recognition can encourage them to find a more appropriate and positive avenue for their energies and desire for attention/recognition.

You guys lock spam attack threads. Not delete them.

  • 11.03.2011 1:38 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: Revelata Secreto
wat
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Ever seen the frustration of a graffiti artist, tagger, or vandal with spray paint when they encounter a teflon coated wall?

Everything they put on it slides off to the ground. All of their effort, their planning, their work, their statement "that everyone will see and know that I exist" ends up.... no where. No one sees it.

Hopefully such denial of reward and recognition can encourage them to find a more appropriate and positive avenue for their energies and desire for attention/recognition.

You guys lock spam attack threads. Not delete them.

I wasn't stating a policy or even a practice.

I was explaining a potential and hypothetical course of reasoning for a possible action.

  • 11.03.2011 1:43 PM PDT

I saw a thread that got deleted once. It was about condoms and... well, to keep it simple, the misuse of them.

It was a tad ridiculous and was definitely a good example of a thread that needed to be deleted.

  • 11.03.2011 1:46 PM PDT

Whenever they get the 'delete' button confused with the 'lock' button.

[Edited on 11.03.2011 1:48 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 1:46 PM PDT
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Rather than being vague and verbose, why not just be blunt about it? "We lock threads that attack -blam!-ity, display racism, or things of that nature" rather than an example that is hardly straightforward. Sorry if I appear up-front about this, but an answer not clouded with real-life examples and subtlety would be appreciated.
Posted by: Recon Number 54

Posted by: Revelata Secreto
wat
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Ever seen the frustration of a graffiti artist, tagger, or vandal with spray paint when they encounter a teflon coated wall?

Everything they put on it slides off to the ground. All of their effort, their planning, their work, their statement "that everyone will see and know that I exist" ends up.... no where. No one sees it.

Hopefully such denial of reward and recognition can encourage them to find a more appropriate and positive avenue for their energies and desire for attention/recognition.

You guys lock spam attack threads. Not delete them.

I wasn't stating a policy or even a practice.

I was explaining a potential and hypothetical course of reasoning for a possible action.


An example using vandals and teflon is hardly related here. The OP wanted to know what a thread must contain in order to be deleted.

  • 11.03.2011 1:48 PM PDT

"We live in a special time; the only time where we can observationally verify that we live in a very special time" - Lawrence Krauss.

I was a finalist :P

I recall Foman (maybe) stating that he deletes threads when they have detailed information about another user. This situation occurred on the Flood forum a while ago, I believe.

  • 11.03.2011 1:50 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Revelata Secreto
Rather than being vague and verbose, why not just be blunt about it? "We lock threads that attack -blam!-ity, display racism, or things of that nature" rather than an example that is hardly straightforward. Sorry if I appear up-front about this, but an answer not clouded with real-life examples and subtlety would be appreciated.

Because I don't want to. I don't speak for anyone other than myself. I don't set policy, I do my best to interpret and enforce it.

You want a rulebook with specific infractions and resulting penalties? Go play a sport. Conversations, these forums. human interaction and even life itself don't work like that.


Posted by: Revelata Secreto
An example using vandals and teflon is hardly related here. The OP wanted to know what a thread must contain in order to be deleted.

Then I didn't give the OP what they wanted. Sorry. But I posted a reply that I considered relevant. It's not my job to give people what they want and it is not yours to tell me what my job is or if I am not (in your opinion) doing it.

  • 11.03.2011 1:53 PM PDT
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Why are you reading my signature? Who actually opens these things and reads them!

And as always, SEND ME A PM. Please. Or really bad things will happen to you.

Wasn't that thread about special characters just deleted?

  • 11.03.2011 1:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


Achronos

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In my experience, threads are usually locked and not deleted to avoid confusion. So, a deleted thread only occurs in the most extreme situations.

Posted by: Cranium Crater
Wasn't that thread about special characters just deleted?
If you mean this one, it's still there.

@Revelata Secreto
Please remain calm, locate the nearest emergency exit and drink some Kool-Aid.

[Edited on 11.03.2011 1:57 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 1:54 PM PDT
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Please don't be ignorant, Recon. Nowhere, at all, anywhere in my response did I at all hint towards anything that could be considered me "telling you how to do your job". Simply because I did not regard what you had said as the epitome of intelligence (like the rest of the Community would/has), doesn't mean you have to put words in my mouth.
Posted by: Recon Number 54
It's not my job to give people what they want and it is not yours to tell me what my job is or if I am not (in your opinion) doing it.

Nope. It was locked.
Posted by: Cranium Crater
Wasn't that thread about special characters just deleted?


EDIT: See? The Community simply cannot resist agreeing with a Moderator, and/or disagreeing with anyone who disagrees with one.
Posted by: Yuke
@Revelata Secreto
Please remain calm, locate the nearest emergency exit and drink some Kool-Aid.


[Edited on 11.03.2011 1:59 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 1:57 PM PDT


Posted by: Zealot Tony
I recall Foman (maybe) stating that he deletes threads when they have detailed information about another user. This situation occurred on the Flood forum a while ago, I believe.


It was Foman's info that got posted.

I remember Achronos posting something about not deleting threads because of some technical thing. Or something.

  • 11.03.2011 2:00 PM PDT


Posted by: Revelata Secreto
Please don't be ignorant, Recon. Nowhere, at all, anywhere in my response did I at all hint towards anything that could be considered me "telling you how to do your job". Simply because I did not regard what you had said as the epitome of intelligence (like the rest of the Community would/has), doesn't mean you have to put words in my mouth.


OP asked: At what instances will moderators delete threads?

Recon said: Hopefully such denial of reward and recognition can encourage them to find a more appropriate and positive avenue for their energies and desire for attention/recognition.

Meaning that if we take away the fuel, hopefully the fire will go out. Meaning, if mods delete rulebreaking threads so the rulebreakers don't get the attention they're looking for, they'll will go do something else.

You're right that that isn't an answer to the OP's question. But since our moderators don't have to be consistent with each other, he can't tell you what other mods will do.

  • 11.03.2011 2:06 PM PDT

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I'd like to visit Zanzibar and peruse the archives one day.

  • 11.03.2011 2:06 PM PDT

@trueunderdog

Chapter

Narwhallace Smithington: Gone, but not forgotten. Never approve of anything lil guy. <3
Furious George: The new -blam!-

Posted by: Revelata Secreto
EDIT: See? The Community simply cannot resist agreeing with a Moderator, and/or disagreeing with anyone who disagrees with one.


Oh please, I could point out just as many people who disagree with us simply because it's the "cool" thing to do.

  • 11.03.2011 2:07 PM PDT
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Some do. Most of them in the Flood, though (with several alts ready!).
inb4 someone agrees with TU and/or insinuates that I am doing what TU described
Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: Revelata Secreto
EDIT: See? The Community simply cannot resist agreeing with a Moderator, and/or disagreeing with anyone who disagrees with one.


Oh please, I could point out just as many people who disagree with us simply because it's the "cool" thing to do.


EDIT: Ohp, twice in one thread. Cool.
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[Edited on 11.03.2011 2:10 PM PDT]

  • 11.03.2011 2:08 PM PDT

@trueunderdog

Chapter

Narwhallace Smithington: Gone, but not forgotten. Never approve of anything lil guy. <3
Furious George: The new -blam!-

No, most of them aren't in The Flood, but I'm not naming names (might violate the CoC). ;)

  • 11.03.2011 2:09 PM PDT
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*sigh*
I inb4'd a minute late, apparently.
Posted by: True Underdog
No, most of them aren't in The Flood, but I'm not naming names (might violate the CoC). ;)

  • 11.03.2011 2:10 PM PDT


Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: Revelata Secreto
EDIT: See? The Community simply cannot resist agreeing with a Moderator, and/or disagreeing with anyone who disagrees with one.


Oh please, I could point out just as many people who disagree with us simply because it's the "cool" thing to do.


Both of you click here.

  • 11.03.2011 2:13 PM PDT

cockburnicus@live.com
New Flood

Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: Revelata Secreto
EDIT: See? The Community simply cannot resist agreeing with a Moderator, and/or disagreeing with anyone who disagrees with one.


Oh please, I could point out just as many people who disagree with us simply because it's the "cool" thing to do.

Puh-lease. I can disagree with you and some random guy will come and defend you.

  • 11.03.2011 2:15 PM PDT

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