Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:45:21 10/08/00
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On October 08, 2000 at 02:34:22, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On October 07, 2000 at 22:46:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I did. It was in the post that explained what was deleted and why. I clearly >>mentioned that all three moderators had communicated and that we were of the >>opinion that the thread should go. After a bunch of complaints. > >Hmm... a bit of fun spoiled by an ugly fact. What kind of complaints were they? >I find it hard to believe that they contained any facts that would warrant such >a deletion. Here I assume that it's not enough to complain, but also to reason. >The number of complaints are irrelevant if they all just say: I don't like that >thread. I think that publishing some of these reasons would calm things down and >excemplify why it had to go. There's certainly no charter violation. > >Mogens. Primarily "this or that post should be deleted. this is not the place for two entities to threaten law suits, make outrageous claims, and so forth." We let it go for a good while, hoping it would slowly die. But eventually the number of complaints made it obvious something should be done. I don't think this is the right forum to "try" such a case. If they want to take it to a legal court of law, that is their choice. But this isn't such a court. Individual complaints to the moderators don't result in a thread being deleted, although they may well result in a single post getting the axe. But this case had enough complaints to cause further action. And the basic decision was to delete everything to be as fair as possible to both. The main complaint was it turned very personal, with lots of threats and counter-threats.
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