inquiry Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 At the very least, there should be a thread which shows all major moderating decisions. The way things are is really too much. This thread was being created in response to the above suggestion and is to provide a place where moderators can notify the community when a thread has been heavily edited or deleted, and reasons for such actions (reasons maybe a little cryptic as we will not say a thread was deleted because it insulted a specific player -- at least not by name). Also, don't expect to see a discussion of here when individual post are edited to remove a players name or to stike out some random profanity. Usually there will be a comment in the edited post when that happens and that should be sufficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted November 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 The Poll started by Justin entitled "Is this a personal attack" has been restored with some minor edits, and with five post in the orginal thread deleted. I am not sure where the poll was originally, but it has been restored to the "General BBO Discussion" forum. This WAS the deleted thread that started the moderation discussion that lead to the creation of this pinned topic. I did the edits and the deletions. Where stuff was edited out, it was explained why at least in general (with one exception which was not discussed). The deleted post were either related to a joke that was mistaken as an attack (and the responses) or that mentioned a specific BBO member by name. All the edits were aimed at trying to prevent a further escalation of discussion of that specific BBF member by name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted December 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 A thread from interesting hands was deleted today by inquiry. It is ironic that the first thread noted here for being deleted was started by inquiry: it was the identical hand I posted in that forum some time ago. Thanks to 655321 for pointing out the duplication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted December 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Two days ago (I think), two moderators discussed a new thread started about a very nice collection of bridge books for sale on ebay. This was the second thread on the very same topic. Our discussion was over 1) Did we want to allow commercial post in this forum (ie, both threads)2) If we allowed this type of commercial post, did we want to allow multiple threads We did not come to a conclusion on the first point, but the decision was that one thread was sufficient. We did not delete either thread, but we did merge them into a single thread. No content was deleted. We are still thinking on point 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Doesn't seem like much is wrong with an occasional commercial posting like that. If the volume warrants it we can create a group for use as a marketplace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Kudos on making this thread and for following through on openness and transparency. Your efforts are appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlall Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Still laughing that the first deleted thread was inquiry deleting...inquiry :rolleyes: Anyways, good job on this thread guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 What will happen if you decide to delete this thread? Will the entire forum disappear in a puff of logic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 Deleted a post by calfanz to repost in bridge base support forum - pinned topic needs to be kept free-r to be useful.http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...=0entry417176 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted December 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Two post, both entitled regedit, were deleted by one of the adminstrators (not sure which). Neither had a place in the forum. I have, at least temporarily, blocked the posting by the user name who posted them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 deleted duplicate post by pasamo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Moved offline a post entitled 'Warning: Offensive topic' in watercooler. I suspect it would have been too offensive for some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Deleted one post in the thread entitled "Two Way Doubles". The post was an attempt at humor based upon the first two words of the title (with nothing else in the post). I know for a fact that at least two people found the attempt at humor offensive because they pressed the report to adminstrator button and told me so. The post was deleted rather than edited because nothing else was in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 A post was deleted from the "General BBO Discussion" because it was posted twice (word for word identical).... once there is once in "Suggestion for software" forumt. The actual post, "Convention cards function needs to be fixed!, Convention cards function needs to be fixed" can still be read in the suggestion for software forum. Double posting seems redundant... :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 A post, which for lack of a better description, was soley aimed at publically accused a player of cheating was removed. Send all cheating issues privately to abuse or to me, or to anyone of the yellows. We take cheating very seriously in games that award bbo rating points. However, public accusation of cheating are not allowed. (edit: ui).Public accusations of cheating (on bbo properties ) are not tolerated. No exceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Two post in public area had links to the private yellow forum in them. Those links wouldn't work for 99.99% of the posters here, so I removed the hyperlinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 A post entiitled "Shawn and Delazar" was removed. It is worth noting that i got not one, but 11 "report this post to moderator" messages about that one. The usual comments ran along the lines of..... looks like a sleazy attempt to post commercial SPAM in the forum We have been pretty good about blocking these type of messages because to signup for this site to post, you have to register on the gaming site. This person did register there (as a footnote, he has played a few hands there as well). Thanks for alerting me.... The poster's posting rights have been removed for the time being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 A thread about "idgets" and the need to have different level rooms has been removed, by me, at least temporarily. Other administrative action was also taken. The thread might come back heavily edited with a number of post totally removed, in that uday had a very nice post in that thread. I repeat Uday's comments below just in case the thread doesn't make it back.... "you gotta make some rooms where people of the same level can play together" The problem is that people won't play there. Many newbies think they're advanced, many advancing players think they're experts, and not a few players think they're (undiscovered except by mom) world class. It is true that some sort of answer would be good. it is a complex problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 The thread mentioned in the previous post by me has been returned to this forum (not sure where it was initially) with 8 individual post by a number of different members removed from the thread. No editing of individual post occured... a post was either deleted or left alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Edited a post in watercooler . Change: require user click in order to see posted image, rather than have images show inline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Closed a long thread in watercooler, was originally about climate or some such, but veered off track into something else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted March 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 A political joke that was either very funny or very insulting, depending on your political background was removed from a post when i logged into my email and found three complaints about it. If it had been in the watercooler, i would have never touched it (truth is I am not the moderator of the water cooler, so wouldn't have gotten the complaints via report to moderator button).. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted March 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 A thread with a broken link was deleted. In addition, there has been reports that the poster is not the same person who plays with the name used to post that thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted March 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 The I feel like dying thread, started by the same knucklehead who didthe one right above this (but with a new username) was deleted. Got six emails about this one.../ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Deleted a post in a thread about the polish president. U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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