What happens and who decides?
#1
Just a quick question. say there is a topic i may or may not read. But when I goto page it say's Topic not found. What happened? does management take it out and if so why?Is it something hurtfull to all of us or what? I get confused. Thanks
#2
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Idaho
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The moderators usually decide to remove a topic, sometimes it is the person who began the topic that asks to have it removed. It could be political, hurtful, too controversial, or religious, or just against the rules of the board.
#4
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Northern Indiana
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Certain topics are off limits for the board- Politics and religion so they will get deleted. If a topic is borderline as offensive , crude or just plain obnoxious they get deleted. We are a public forum and try to keep it family friendly. Classifieds can get deleted for not following the rules . Each section has a rules topic that is very informative and I encourage everyone to read them from time to time as they do get updated and things change.
#7
Originally Posted by raedar63
I see tons of religious refrences on here daily.....
a simple "G-d bless", or similar statement shouldn't offend a person with common sense. we should be offended because another member wishes good things for us, even if we don't indivually subscribe to that system of belief? i think not. it's ungrateful and not necessary to be offended by something like that.
when something reads like a call to convert, a sermon, a prayer, or something similar it will get deleted. sometimes that involves surgically editing a post. sometimes the only solution is to remove the whole thing altogether.
requests for prayers are moved or merged into existing PDAs. they are the only overtly religious posts for which we allow exceptions when it's possible and practical.
moderators don't have access to profile signatures. so, even though they should not be there we can't fix the scriptural quotes and other forms of proseletyzing and sermonizing members include there. it would take a dozen moderators weeks or months to fix all of them even if we could. i have always assumed that most of the members who include them do so without thinking. i'm sure a few do it because they claim some right to force their views on others, but i think most just do it out of habit. i try to not jump to conclusions about their intent. to do so risks accusing individuals unfairly. i can't read minds and have not had the good fortune to meet every member in person. how can i know for sure what the motivation is?
we're a friendly bunch, so i don't want to do risk hurting somebody's feelings or embarrassing them without hard, irrefutable evidence that it's justified.
tolerance requires travelling down a two-way street. ;-)
#8
Ok thank you for the input. helps clear some things up.For a long time i wasn't and still aren't to computer savey so I thought maybe it's me not knowing where to find the topic. :) but thank's again. I can understand better now.
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