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Why are threads against the Tories being deleted and closed
Pamthehound
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Just popped onto some threads this past week an have noticed that quite a few have been closed and deleted all of them potray the Tories in a poor light and one of the posters has been made "inactive! whatever that means ......banned probably.
DS has gone to the dogs ...Im off>:(
DS has gone to the dogs ...Im off>:(
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So a good board policy (I've seen elsewhere) would be to give someone a public warning if they mildly break a rule and then ban them for a period if they ignore the warning and carry on.
Delete a post only when strictly necessary (eg legal reasons) but NEVER just delete a whole thread which includes the thoughtful carefully- worded comments from posters who behave themselves - that's just crass and lazy 'policlng'. It also makes people wonder what's the point of joining a discussion if someone can delete it at a stroke.
Someones do not delete anything. The moderators maintain standard on this forum. Their rules are clear for all FMs to read.
Customers is too strong a word for it...income generators for the ad sponsorship.
On a site BTW owned by a US media corporation (Hearst...the alleged model for Welles' "Citizen Kane"...and which they did their level best to get banned)
Their function is to facilitate the discussion and to enforce the rules.
A couple of years ago posts kept getting deleted on a thread. The missing ones included more than one of mine which contained some detail on the topic which took some time to cmpose and carefully avoided any personal attacks. Whole swathes of good, carefully argued posts of several well-behaved people disappeared along with the ones they didn't like but with no explanation of what was wrong with the deleted posts.
These actions got in the way of the discussion rather than helping keep it on track within the rules. This caused more argument because people accused other of reporting them and we didn't have the posts to sort it out and any reference to the mods was removed!
I hope they were dismissed or at least provided with some guidance about how to moderate.
Take it up with the moderators.
If you don't like the Tories then state your objections and make a cogent case against their works.
Locking threads that have deteriorated is much more effective, the one locked around 12.08 today has already nearly disappeared from page 1.
I'll miss OHG.
So if you're posting a "good, carefully argued post" against the comments of an idiot - don't include a quote of the post made by the idiot within your post.
Well I don't know about deleted threads, but I think I spy the problem: lefty outrage hounds working themselves up into a lather and just outstretching themselves. The following from a thread that wasn't deleted, just locked:
"What a piece of nasty dishonest politics by this tory toff
he is the worst form of a nasty lying politican
He has certainly been full of sh1t from day 1
He's lying.
He could not tell the truth if he tried.
If hell exists, this monster has earned his entry.
What marks him out as a particularly disgusting specimen of humanity is...
As a professed christian he should be feeling the fires of hell at his backside
The only thing...has succeeded at in his life is being a total failure.
...is so rotten, even the rats wouldn't touch him"
Not too many "thoughtful" or "well-worded" comments in there, although I acknowledge that by the standards of English of your average student union rep or socialist workers party activist the above choice selection is probably almost Shakespearean in eloquence. However, good reason to bid a fond adieu to a participant or two. All the more time to hang out in the SU bar.
I suspect the deleted thread was more of the same and worse.
Is he actually banned? Although our opinions are on opposite sides of the political spectrum I will still miss his strong opinions etc. , Why was he banned? I know he was passionate but there's nothing wrong with that!
Well said 👍
However he isn't (or is he?...) Would explain a lot!
It's easy to get carried away. I hope the mods give people some space during these difficult few weeks.
Sorry, I was tongue in cheek. The only reason DS will ever ban him is for abuse of bandwidth. No doubt the old pinko Marxist windbag will be around for years to come.
(note to trigger-happy mods: that last bit was a joke as well)
Well I'll take your word for it that Dave said of Ed "He has certainly been full of sh1t from day 1", but with a touch of scepticism.
But 90% of the threads that still exist are just like this too!
I know that's the strange part whatever is said about each political party is tit for tat so why is one particular party being singled out
Its a joke mods.
Depends, if he hasn't misbehaved too much and had previous bans, he should be back in a few days.