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 Sun Apr 01, 2007 0:53 am Post deletion |
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Hi
This quote is from another thread:
| Conchita wrote: | | Mister Micawber wrote: | .
I deleted it and another one that did not advance the thread, Englishuser. As I recall, your post contradicted Yankee's previous post, but offered no explanation of any kind. Such a post is counterproductive.
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Oh no! I fervently hope this forum is not going to turn into a replica of another nightmarish, Gestapo-like forum I know where you have to walk on eggshells all the time and where tellings-off and indiscriminate post deletion are the order of the day.
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Hi Conchita
I have to admit I find all of this puzzling. Since I did not see EU's deleted post, I cannot comment on or respond to it at all. Personally, though, I have a great deal of trust in MM's judgment. As far as I know, MM rarely deletes anything -- he even patiently responds to questions that hardly seem to be questions at all.
So your reaction to MM's deletion, with talk of Gestapo and characterization as indiscriminate, puzzles me, Conchita. Did you see EU's post? This whole thing has made me curious to know what the devil she wrote.
Perhaps MM also felt the thread was getting off-topic. If that was the case, maybe there is an alternative solution to the occasional problem of the answers in the "English Teacher Explanations" threads getting too long and/or off topic.
I know that in other forums it's possible to move an off-topic post and turn it into a new thread somewhere else. Maybe it's possible to give moderators the ability to do that here, too.
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| Sun Apr 01, 2007 20:12 pm Post deletion |
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Hi,
On the one hand, what I wrote wasn't that important at all. If MM thinks it is all right to delete my posts, so be it.
On the other hand, I think post deletion should never be practiced: Deleted posts should remain available to the Site Admin and perhaps even to the moderators for reference. Every contribution, no matter how silly or off-topic it may be, is still a contribution, and should therefore be preserved. In my opinion, we should refrain from rewriting history.
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I'm here quite often ;-)
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| Sun Apr 01, 2007 22:12 pm Post deletion |
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Englishuser is right, instead of deleting posts we can move irrelevant messages to a different forum section (instead of moving the entire thread we can select single posts and move them -- this is called "post splitting").
Let me know what you think.
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Torsten
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| Sun Apr 01, 2007 23:03 pm Post deletion |
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That was exactly my suggestion, Torsten. I just don't know how that sort of "splitting" is supposed to work. Or is that to be reserved for you, Alan and Slava?
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| Mon Jun 30, 2008 19:27 pm Post deletion |
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| hmm..interesting thread... |
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