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Originally posted by PsychoticPanda
On some message boards I moderate I would delete posts I didn't like. ONLY because I managed the sites, and I was in a bad mood. :D
Plus the ones I deleted were insulting and started arguments.
I don't know why someone would delete the post you said they deleted. That sucks.
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That's called bad moderating.
I'm an admin at a forum, and I was a mod at another until I left that forum. The forum that I'm and admin at, we don't delete threads unless it's necessary (ie, pornograph etc) then we give the topics poster a warning level, which decreases his ability to post, and if he gets warned 5 times, they're banned. What we do to topics is lock them.
If it's a pointless topic, like SFF's fist fucking topic, we would lock it because it got off topic, but wouldn't delete it so people can still look at the topic, and maybe get some info from it that they never knew or something.
On bannings, I'm a little more strict on people, I give out IP Bannings, which means they'll never be able to come back, unless they have 56k, which in that case I can't IP Ban them.
I think the only reason why Avenger is deleting topics is because maybe he can't lock them? Either way, if they're pointless, I think he should just leave them alone, they'll die off eventually. I would only delete a topic if it really does need deleting.