Author: KarinsDad
Date: 23:31:24 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 19:07:27, Fernando Villegas wrote: [snip] Why? Maybe because deletions >are a public fact and non-deletions are not. If demands of deletions are made >privately, we cannot know that they existed and were rejected.We only know about >them when actually are accepted and a post is deleted. Then we receive -certain >people, specially- only one kind of signal. May I suggest that from time to time >you explicit why a demand of deletion was rejected? Perhaps signals could >equilibrate that way and people who like to scrutinize and punish what they does >not like could feel that there is not an open field of hunting for them. >Cheers >Fernando Fernando, Although on the surface, this sounds like a good idea, I do not think it really is. My reasoning is as follows: 1) If people Email the moderators, they get feedback one way or another. Hence, if a person wants feedback, s/he should Email the moderators as opposed to posting a message. 2) I think people here can understand that if a person posts "this should be deleted" and it isn't, that the moderators did not agree. However, if a moderator explained why that did not occur, even occasionally, then moderation threads about deletion would be starting up almost every week. I do not want to read that kind of stuff a lot and I doubt you do either. 3) A person who Emails the moderator may be shy or may be a person who just reads and doesn't post often. Just because you and I are quite willing to write down whatever comes into our minds and we may not care who knows it, it does not mean that everybody is willing to do that. I consider the Emails to the moderators requesting a deletion to be a private communication between a concerned member of the forum and that person's main recourse to moderation. If the reason for that request is correct within my judgement, I will delete the post. If not, it should not matter to anyone else that a person asked me to look into it. We are mostly intelligent people here. We should know by now that deletion is a task that is undertaken relatively infrequently around here and that it is done mostly in an attempt to head off controversy. If a post is really bad, it gets deleted. If a bunch of people are offended by a post, there is a good chance that it will be deleted. If nobody complains about a given post, it is extremely rare that it gets deleted. KarinsDad :)
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