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The over-deleting of user's posts without notice.
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Aniej, for what it's worth, the number of posts you've made that have been deleted, been posted in the Political forums or been in Wastelanded threads combined is less than 40 for the whole time you've been a member.
My point may of been missed earlier.
I think a "warning" would be fair.
Perhaps a function that as soon as a post is deleted it will send a PM saying "The following Post in thread XYZ has been deleted. Please keep post meaningful" or something like that.
Its not a HUGE problem IMO, but I have had a post or two deleted and wondered why. It seems that more and more posts of peoples have been disappearing.
I think a "warning" would be fair.
Perhaps a function that as soon as a post is deleted it will send a PM saying "The following Post in thread XYZ has been deleted. Please keep post meaningful" or something like that.
Its not a HUGE problem IMO, but I have had a post or two deleted and wondered why. It seems that more and more posts of peoples have been disappearing.
I don't think the Mods have time to PM every person to inform them if one of their posts is being deleted.
No I don't think they have time to respond to every single post. I am not asking for that. I think it is very clear what my point is and fair to ask for. I will restate it nonetheless: When 40 posts get deleted in a only a matter of minutes, yes I do think the mod has the time and the responsibility to at least inform the person who made the posts. 40 posts is very different than 1 or 2 and the least they could do was give the user a heads up, talk to them for a second and engage in some form of dialogue so the person does not feel like this came out of nowhere and the time they spent was wasted.
The point is notice and transparency thats all. This message board is for all of us to enjoy and is a community; I'm just asking for things to be done the right way. And in response to your issue of not sending a PM, it is not all that easy to do when there was no easy to find list of mods on at the time other than going to guides and matching that against who the users were on at the time. I think a public request was correct and not only the reasonable thing to do in light of the the reason I just gave, but also meant to bring the problem to light, which is what message boards are about.
It wouldnt work like that. It would be an automatic function once a mod pressed delete. Maybe right before it sends it might provide the mod a menu of choices of which "rule" the post violated. Simple and to the point and non-time consuming.
I am not aware of how big issue this is, just offering my 2 cents to fix it.
Aniej, your question has already been answered. It was a server recalculation that caused your post count to drop.
I find a bit of irony in that it's too much effort to at least PM one mod from your perspective, but a mod is expected to not only edit/delete posts (and from more than just one user at a time, most likely working on a number of behind-the-scenes stuff) and then PM all the users that are effected. And for future references; go to the main Forums listing page... click on "View Forum Leaders."
No, this type of issue has been addressed over and over again... Have you yet taken the time to read the Forum Rules that both I and rdowns posted a link to?
yes I read it just now, but I actually don't quite understand what the consequence of that is? I am tired, it's late. I think some of my (and our) posts in here are out of frustration so take them with a grain of salt. But, please also take the time to read the clearly articulated points and concerns as a legitimate point of view regarding a problem worth noting publicly.
That definitely goes both ways. You don't make a public scene, you don't make demands, you don't lash out and you don't get upset about things that aren't that important.
HexMonkey already posted that you did not have that many posts deleted in your entire time here.
For future reference, you can find an easy way here.
One last comment, for the record. We already do exactly what you are suggesting, even if the number of posts removed is much smaller than 40.
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