Very Important Regarding A Post Being Deleted

[RobAGD]

I deleted it.

I have deleted several lame poll post. The polls are being used for rather lame things and thats why several have just vanished.

That simple

I also don't feel like justifing my actions everytime I edit or delete a post.

-Robert

[shartley]

No offense...

RobAGD:

I have deleted several lame poll post. The polls are being used for rather lame things and thats why several have just vanished.

[ben_JD]

No such thing as private censorship

It is impossible for a non-governmental entity (e.g., Rob) to censor anyone. This is a private board paid for by money out of the coffers of a private Illinois corporation. They or their agents (moderators on this board) can erase anything for any reason with as little or as much an explanation as they wish.

Having said that, I must say that I agree with Mr. Hartley wholeheartedly. I use this friendly forum to post and read comments. I am sure that if this discriminate use of veto power were carried further, I would cease to visit here.

Again, let me reiterate for those of you who have already forgotten what I wrote in the first paragraph: Automags Online forum has EVERYAuthor's note: Please read the following two posts for clarification of this poorly written explanation of the author's intended message.]

[shartley]

Thank you.

ben_JD:

[ben_JD]

I think we are in agreement.

Further, I tend to agree with your reiteration of private censorship. My unartfully written monologue focused merely on what was legal and within Automags Online rights; it wasn't meant to be a direct rebuke or correction of what you were trying to say. What should have been said is that there is no such thing as unconstitutional private censorship.

Undue censorship which is completely within the moderators' right is the focus of the complaint.

[RobAGD]

I deletes the post becuse the polls were serving no real point, along with several other poll post.

Poll post were getting out of hand for non sence.

shartley - I don't honestly give .02 about what you think of me.

To anyone else, If a post is deleted deal with it.

While this forum is free and generally very open, I will still clean out the garbage as I see fit. That is part of why I am a mod. Some things might be deleted for posting guide lines and other might be delete for any number of reasons not stated in the general posting guild lines.

and once again I will state I could honestly care less what you may think of me. I don't look to the people in this forum for validation of what I do.

-Robert

[Cha0tic]

i think rob made me wet my pants....

your kinda scary, you know that?

[ben_JD]

Next up in the (un)Friendly Corner:

Quote from the official rules of this forum:

"These rules may change at any point and changes will be posted on the forum."

[Army]

The so-called "poll" was being used and abused by the two members about whom the poll was all about. The Mods have the afforded option to decide which topic and/or poll is simply wasting bandwidth. Rob did what he has been asked to do, maintain the board.

[ben_JD]

Abuse is certainly a worthy cause for deleting any post. What is baffling is not that the poll(s) and/or post(s) were deleted, but that the reasons affirmatively given were because they were lame, pointless and nonsensical.

Not one person has commented against the board's sole discretion to delete posts for any of these or other reasons; it is just confusing that the criterion used in this instance was so capricious.

[shartley]

[AGD]

I am on the scene now, I am locking this thread in order that I can get this thing straightened out. I will be forwarding clear and consistent rules of conduct to the mods. We do not operate in a haphazard manner here and feedback is the only thing that will make this board better.

AGD