Topic: My proposal to forum administration - page 4. (Read 2431 times)
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I had a look in the trashcan but figured if it was an old thread it would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Also if it was straight up deleted it wouldn't be in there. I wonder if theymos tried tinkering with something or the wall observer thread that effected post counts? I guess we'll just have to wait for theymos to look into it.
Maybe there is a good reason behind it like hilariousandco stated. It really is fun to read how people from the past keep saying Bitcoin's gonna die or whatever so I am in support to just lock the old thread or transfer it to off topic section.
Just wondering what that topic is since OP said his 64 post were deminished by the deletion of a topic. Might as well shed light to the topic by knowing what that topic is so it would become justifiable? Seems like the OP is a good poster himself and been active with that particular topic having 64 post in there.
Just wondering what that topic is since OP said his 64 post were deminished by the deletion of a topic. Might as well shed light to the topic by knowing what that topic is so it would become justifiable? Seems like the OP is a good poster himself and been active with that particular topic having 64 post in there.
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Big threads are rarely deleted or moved to the trashcan and are in fact usually just locked. The only big ones I've ever trashed are utter shit threads in gambling discussion or off topic like is 0.002 bitcoin a good amount to gamble with or what time do you wake up in the morning etc after they have quickly been spammed to death. I don't know what thread has gone but I'll have a scan of the trashcan when I get on the PC.
Really, if the thread didn't get deleted at once (within a few days), it pretty much means that it is worth staying here, while deleting an old thread feels like a spit in the face of the posters
I pretty much agree here. I quite often like to browse through old threads to measure how the sentiment was back then, how people were advicing each other to cash out at $500 before the price starts to crash, etc. Instead of deleting threads, just lock them. It means that it won't attract any more spam, but people can still browse through them. Instead of moderators focusing on old burried threads, they should do some active effort to combat recent spam, because that's what we need. Lock old threads, or move them to the off-topic section where people don't get paid to post, deletion is meaningless.
All of a sudden, my post count got diminished by 64 posts this morning
I didn't receive any notification that my posts got deleted, which you usually receive when just your post is deleted by a moderator. Obviously, the whole thread was trashed. Since my recent posts are all in place (I checked my post history), it is some old thread that got deleted, likely created years ago. I don't know which thread got deleted, I don't know who deleted it, I don't even know if I'm somehow involved in that but I do think this is not a good idea at all since this possibility allows easy abuse by moderators if they decide to start a personal vendetta against a certain user by deleting old threads with his posts. I don't think that I was a victim of this vendetta (if there is any), and I hope that I will never be but the issue is certainly present and it finally revealed itself. So my proposal to the forum administration is to disable deletion of old threads (say, older than a few days) by moderators unless given explicit consent by Theymos. Really, if the thread didn't get deleted at once (within a few days), it pretty much means that it is worth staying here, while deleting an old thread feels like a spit in the face of the posters
I didn't receive any notification that my posts got deleted, which you usually receive when just your post is deleted by a moderator. Obviously, the whole thread was trashed. Since my recent posts are all in place (I checked my post history), it is some old thread that got deleted, likely created years ago. I don't know which thread got deleted, I don't know who deleted it, I don't even know if I'm somehow involved in that but I do think this is not a good idea at all since this possibility allows easy abuse by moderators if they decide to start a personal vendetta against a certain user by deleting old threads with his posts. I don't think that I was a victim of this vendetta (if there is any), and I hope that I will never be but the issue is certainly present and it finally revealed itself. So my proposal to the forum administration is to disable deletion of old threads (say, older than a few days) by moderators unless given explicit consent by Theymos. Really, if the thread didn't get deleted at once (within a few days), it pretty much means that it is worth staying here, while deleting an old thread feels like a spit in the face of the posters
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