Moderator Question 2

[Charl]

So what's your reaction, Part 2?

[ZK-LGD]

Howdy,

Again, a thorny issue. Personally, it would be a courtesy to PM the "offending" author, explaning the reasoning behind the moderator's action. That way one covers all bases.

Of course, in an ideal world, we would all practice self-censorship.

[Zöltuger]

there must be a serious reason why it was deleted. you should know why so no need to say more in my opinion

[Jimmy]

It depends on the content of the post. Unless it was obves the member knew it was out of line then yes they should be PMed IMO.

If I went to the effort of posting something then I would certainly like a reason fo its deletion

[Christian]

Also agree with the others here. Deleting a post is deleting something someone took there time to write. I don't have a problem with deleting - but it should be explained why!

What I suggest is quite an easy solution. Everybody agrees to the forum rules when signing up. If someone violates those rules that would in my opinion justify a delete. Simply copy/paste the rule the poster violated to explain why the post was deleted and that should give the poster to think something about (and hopefully reflect on their behaviour).

Bottomline: as long as everyone understands the rules and deletions will refer back to those rules I'm fine with it.

Cheers,
Christian

[Alex]

Sorta looks like we have a general consensus here, and I agree.

Alex

[Ian Warren]

mmm 'Reckon that's OK ' .. mm spend all night to figure noodle

[AlisterC]

I've moderated a few forums in my time, and I've found the "pm after deletion" approach usually keeps most people happy.

[gokanru]

I would favour the point of view that if a post is deleted then that post be pm to the offender with an explantion and so giving them a chance to repost correctly.At least they can't say that they were not given a chance.At the end of the day surely common sense rules.

[ronindanbo]

yes being left to guese what I had done wrong is a bit off for me and would like to see a PM explanation.

[SUBS17]

Yeah a pm and often they also post a reason why in the space where the thread existed. You also have to view the topic objectively before you jump in and delete it for example a common topic that in quite a few forums almost always gets locked by moderators is Falcon4 vs lockon. These turn into heated debates sometimes and so often such threads are locked. To over moderate would be to lock it straight away, its better to just keep an eye on the thread and then if things get out of hand then lock it.(not every discussion results in a thread having to be locked even if it often gets locked ) On the other side of the coin if you lock a thread and then someone restarts the topic in a new thread then you would be justified in locking it.