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It sometimes seems to be OK for you to call people some pretty unfriendly things, based on some pretty subjective criteria.
Try again.
What I think would be helpful is if, when a mod removes comments, they either identify who they are (some do, some don't) or send the person being moderated a PM telling them why. This would go a long way toward resolving a lot of the perception of inconsistency.
Years ago when I was working in the central administration of a large school district, I created a number of instructional web sites. I got a phone call from a teacher who said a critical link was not working. I looked and saw that I had a typo in the URL. I fixed it and suggested he try hitting the Refresh (it was Reload then) button and doing it again. he said, "OK, now it worked. So if this happens again I should just hit 'Reload' and try again?" I confessed.... and there it is ... been there, done that. Just last week I got a call here at work from someone who told me they were looking for certain info. I told them where to find it. They told me it wasn't there. I said "but I'm looking at it right now". Then it occurred to me to look at permissions. I checked permissions, clicked a box and said "Try again" ... and there it was ...
In this case in the confusion of moving it the thread had been accidentally deleted from public view.
Human error, fair enough.
But I'm still wondering why some posts were removed from the originating thread for being off topic because they were "discussing the prerogative of the OP to offer an opinion", & some weren't.
Human error, fair enough.
But I'm still wondering why some posts were removed from the originating thread for being off topic because they were "discussing the prerogative of the OP to offer an opinion", & some weren't.
No, it wasn't in the back room. It was in Feedback, but Bob was correct. The settings were preventing all but mods from actually seeing the thread. It's fixed now.OMG.... do you mean..... it's in the back room.