[carnation]

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.