I may be picking nits here but I find this more offensive than someone calling me an a-hole as the title in and of itself it meant as a way to insult those of us that choose not to pay a weeks salary to run our computers.
In a public forum you have no right NOT to be offended by something.
Not telling the user might seem like an easy way to sweep the problem under the rug without creating a fuzz, but I think deleting posts without any kind of notice to the user is more likely to make people hold grudges against you/the moderation team.
Not telling the user might seem like an easy way to sweep the problem under the rug without creating a fuzz, but I think deleting posts without any kind of notice to the user is more likely to make people hold grudges against you/the moderation team.
Actually, experience shows the opposite to usually be the case.
If you try and engage people on how and why, it almost always escalates in some way.
By the way, is there a "proper" way to contact the moderators?
Normally I wouldn't post in a thread like this. But I just wanted to add my support your decision Dave.
Whether you like it or not, I think you are the BDFL for the eevblog forum
Seems like a contradiction in terms to me.
How would the mod in casu known if such person holds a grudge against him, without engaging that person.
Actually, experience shows the opposite to usually be the case.
If you try and engage people on how and why, it almost always escalates in some way.
Mods don't hold grudges, nor do they care if anyone has a grudge against them
I think what you're saying is that most people never discover that a post was deleted, and you don't suffer from what you don't know. But surely some do, and feel surprised, confused as to why the post was deleted or a combination of both.
If I had a post deleted without explanation I'd assume it was a forum bug or I forgot to hit "post" before closing the tab, and re-post it. That's what caused all the problems and what I'd really like to avoid seeing again.
I'd say the situation is worse now. If a post vanishes I'm supposed to email Dave, so he can waste time investigating what happened. Seems like it will just create more work, or more confusion and escalation.
The idea here being that the moderation action of "delete post" should be simple for the moderator. And notification of the user should be automatic, not extra work. That is, should you choose to have that as feature.
Seriously though, what I was talking about was taking the bull by the horns vs sweeping something under the rug. If I had a post deleted with a notice, I might feel angry about it in the moment. If I had a post deleted without notice and discovered this a year later, I would feel betrayed, because the matter wasn't dealt with in clear terms. I think what you're saying is that most people never discover that a post was deleted, and you don't suffer from what you don't know. But surely some do, and feel surprised, confused as to why the post was deleted or a combination of both.
If I had a post deleted without explanation I'd assume it was a forum bug or I forgot to hit "post" before closing the tab, and re-post it. That's what caused all the problems and what I'd really like to avoid seeing again.
Edit post, just leave a non-red-text blanket marker including username of moderator, something like
"[ Inappropriate/Off-Topic Content Removed - dave ]"
Most forums I'm a member of do the above. Leaving the trail of known deletions per user also allows the rest of us gauge our ignore lists.
I assume this forum allows for username moderation tags, infractions or events. Probably more time consuming is moderators need to document these events so as a community user banning can be properly gauged. As the forum becomes more and more popular, this issue will become more necessary.
Why remove the whole post, when only a small part of it was the problem? At first I just assumed there was a problem with the connection or I'd forgotten to press reply so I reposted it which resulted in an argument and a ban.