Topic: Deleting Several Previous Posts/Comments To Reduce Post Count... - page 3. (Read 444 times)

Campaign managers will look at these following twos

Total merits
Received merits in the last 120 days (4 months)

Your total merits can give an early impression but campaign managers will look deeper to see your received merits in last 120 days. It is to see your post quality is maintaining at high quality or drop last for months. Deleting your old posts can not help you to pass through the manager checking.

Is there any manager use merit/post ratio to select their participants? AFAIK no.

What I know is: total merit earned in 120 days, posting habit, the frequent section, total merit earned, top recognized rank, trust rating, and some privilege e.g. staff, moderator, foxup merit cycling, phenomenal etc.

I think the higher total post, the higher chance people will see his signature because it's spread to many places.

I know you said you don't want to do it, but you better name names and let's see if they are really people who delete their own posts for certain reasons or if they are surely deleted by the moderators. The question so in abstract does not give for much, but the idea that you carry I think we are goin to tell you that it is wrong, as those of us who commented already did.

What if it is one of the moderators or some moderators that is deleting it. Some posts are reported and got deleted. You can see some posts that are reported to be many and belonging to one user and moderators keep deleting the reported posts.

If someone is intentionally deleting his post, go to the person posting history and see if he is a bounty hunter. He may want to change and get merit to get a signature campaign. You can check if the person's account password change or email changed, which means the account has been bought and looking for a way to join a signature campaign.

Managers don't blindly trust the earned merit vs post, they manually check the post quality before accepting participants. So, I don't think this is something which would benefit them. And the answer of your question is in the thread, there's no such rules so they can delete their previous posts. There's nothing wrong with that.

The only reason for which someone wants to delete their post history is to cover their stupid mistakes, wants privacy etc though that's not possible due to some of the archival services.

Hi everyone..

So some how, i discovered that there are some forum members who are periodically deleting tens of hundreds of their previous posts/comments, supposedly for no other reason other than to keep their post count low, probably to match the number of merits they have earned, or keep their post count at a little bit higher average, what ever their main motive for doing this is, I don't know specifically, but my guess is that, they may think or consider it that other forum users, or maybe campaign managers, may consider them spammers if they have a lot of posts, maybe in the tens of thousands and not many merits earned to back that number of posts up, this is true ?

I know of two or three accounts that have engaged in this act of deleting their own previous post, I've thought about why they do this and nothing else comes to mind except that which I've expressed above, i am not going to mention their usernames since this thread is not about them, but me personally asking if this is an ideal thing to do, i know there is no rule restricting users from deleting their previous posts when they feel like it, but I don't know why I feel doing such is a cheating on other honest forum members, as well as campaign managers who might believe you to be a quality poster based on your low posts count and merit earned, not knowing that you are just an average poster like most users of the forum, that deleting previous post is what has kept your post counts down..

What do you guys think or make of this?, its an honest enquiry please..