My mistake. Didn't notice. Did you eventually make your intended point? If so, no real censure.
My point is that a super moderator told me to stop being lazy and add some content or context. I thought the tweet stood on its own so I didn’t feel it was necessary and replied accordingly. The super moderator then deleted the offending posts.
My beef is basically that he alone decided my posts didn’t measure up to his personal criteria of argument rebuttal and deleted them with no warning. If he had said fix it or I’ll use my mod powers and delete them, that’s fine...but he didn’t.
We’ve been corresponding via PM and he eventually said that he was willing to undelete the posts so I could add context or content. And I asked him why that wasn’t the first action from the get go. Still waiting for that reply.
Now, do I think I’m being singled out for some personal vendetta? No. But this is the slippery slope of moderation. Clearly I felt strongly enough about those tweets to share them because I think they present a side to the covid crisis that isn’t getting much coverage from mainstream media. By deleting those posts because they offend his sensibilities, he’s taken away the ability of more people to consume data or opinions, interpret them, and come to their own conclusions.
Since I broke no published rules of the forum, I still don’t agree that he should have deleted those posts. I understand that mods are given powers to use beyond those of a normal user, but they need to be willing to moderate consistently and fairly.
We’ve been corresponding via PM and I included webmaster on there as well.
Previously, I’ve had a conversation with Brett about moderation and I can understand for certain subjects, but the theme here has always been the less moderation the better, hence my surprise that those three posts of mine were picked given that it was nowhere near the first time that I’d posted that way and they didn’t meet the criteria for posts that are usually moderated. An excerpt from that exchange with Brett is posted below:
“We moderate very lightly here, to be honest, and there's usually a behind the scenes discussion with Mods before we do. Most of it is either keeping the discussion in the PNA areas when appropriate, dealing with OPSEC, or outright over the top personal attacks.”
@Brett327 if you find it distasteful that I posted that I apologize in advance and please delete accordingly.
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