And an awesome new member at that :) Love my new sisters in TEXAS!

One thing that newer members may not realize- and longtimers and mods do- is that certain topics or the mention of certain people would be guaranteed to bring out the crazies and/or the flames. There are certain topics that almost any mod will delete right off because he or she knows what will follow and we'd just as soon avoid a nasty mess of hurt feelings or even intervention from national offices.

Some topics have been deleted so quickly that most members probably didn't see them. What DeltAlum said about chronic troublemakers is true too...some people purposely post ugly stuff just to start something.

Another thing is that sometimes the mods turn on their computers and have a flood of "reported posts" from GC. We might get a dozen complaints about a post, see how it could be hurtful, delete it, and then a couple of people start screaming because it was deleted. Usually the GCers who complained about the post don't step up and admit they were one of the complainers so it looks like the mods were the only ones who didn't like it.

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(sorry didn't reply sooner.. I've been busy w/ school/work here!)

Good point!! I never thought about that...

Carnation is totally right!

GC Moderators take our jobs very seriousally! We discuss the problem posters as they come to us and ask us to check them out!

i have never myself asked for a poster to be taken off without good cause along with all Moderators!

We are not faceless people, well I am as cannot or want to post a pix of me on site! Yall would go oooooooh!:)

John, My Hal as has to be a computor for what he has to keep up with also does not just delete post for grins! He takes the advice of a majority of the Moderators before he deletes some one!

So take heart my new young neophyetes you are in good hands!

There are some of the finest people on the world on this site and you have the privilage be with us!:cool: :)