Deleted Threads? - Page 5

damasa · #61 12-21-2003, 12:26 PM

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Originally posted by russellwarshay
Then why wasn't "Random" deleted?

I couldn't tell you. I'm not a moderator of Chit Chat and I didn't delete the other threads in question.

I'm not saying that it was right because it's not but the fact is that it happened and arguing about it further will not bring the threads back.

Maybe the Random thread will be deleted along with other "post-padding" posts, but again I'm not sure because I'm not a Chit Chat moderator.

justamom · #62 12-21-2003, 12:28 PM

Damasa-"She could have deleted it but I'm not sure, but I won't say "I doubt" as I have no clue."

Original post-I doubt Dionysus would delete the thread. "I could be wrong of course.

Damasa-"It's easy to take for granted the things certain people (John) do for us. Let's think about that for a second here.

My last statement-Sure, no biggie that two rather innocent threads were wiped of the face of our little cyber universe, but it's the principle that seems to be the rub.

Damasa, I'm just feeling like a pickle today. Good points on the
2000 pages, and I do think we all appreciate John and what he has given us. Sometimes it easy to take GC for granted!

damasa · #63 12-21-2003, 12:34 PM

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Originally posted by justamom
Damasa-"She could have deleted it but I'm not sure, but I won't say "I doubt" as I have no clue."

Original post-I doubt Dionysus would delete the thread. "I could be wrong of course.

Damasa-"It's easy to take for granted the things certain people (John) do for us. Let's think about that for a second here.

My last statement-Sure, no biggie that two rather innocent threads were wiped of the face of our little cyber universe, but it's the principle that seems to be the rub.

Damasa, I'm just feeling like a pickle today. Good points on the
2000 pages, and I do think we all appreciate John and what he has given us. Sometimes it easy to take GC for granted!

I know you said you could be wrong, but doubt is a pretty strong word

j/k...anyway I want to try to stop this whole "movement against the mods" or whatever. I dont' know what happened, if a mod did it I don't know who did. But if a mod did do it, I know that not all seventy or so other mods were involved. So to blame them all is not a good thing. Yes, that is directed towards you absolutchick. Remember, you may be upset because of the posts you lost, but to single all the mods out is upsetting. I wasn't personally involved with any of it, hell I haven't been around much lately, but now I feel like I'm to blame for something I didn't do, don't know anything about and had no intent of doing. Please stop it.

33girl · #64 12-21-2003, 12:36 PM

Tim Russert just interrupted "Meet The Press" to share some stunning new information that post counts do not equal coolness.

No, I'm kidding. I'm watching the video for Joe Walsh's "The Confessor" (which I didn't even know there was one of). It rocks.

PhiPsiRuss · #65 12-21-2003, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by 33girl
post counts do not equal coolness

Clearly

AlphaGam1019 · #66 12-21-2003, 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by 33girl
post counts do not equal coolness.

nor does it equate to dick size (as someone funny said

)

so quit acting as if we took your f*'ing Viagra away! :P

Lil' Hannah · #67 12-21-2003, 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
And if we're gona bitch about post whores, check out Arya's "In this thread"....

I was just trying to be funny.

PM_Mama00 · #68 12-21-2003, 01:00 PM

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Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
I was just trying to be funny.

I apologize

DeltaBetaBaby · #69 12-21-2003, 01:52 PM

Heck, if I had things my way, we would just get rid of chit chat entirely!

Good thing I don't mod that forum...there would be a lot of deletions every time I got cranky.

James · #70 12-21-2003, 02:06 PM

Guys, newsflash, this just in.

There are identical threads in existance again!

As far as post padding. I don't care if you are deliberately trying to rack up a higher number or just like to post a lot. Its cool.

Personally, everytime I look at my post count it reflects on man hours lost . . . I probably could have written a significant piece of work with every thousand posts. Or at the length I write . . every 100 posts

The only thing I can say in my defense is that I have been on here since September, 1999. Some people have passed my post count in less than a year on site

I guess that means they are even less productive than I am . . frightening thought

If you are just upset that your favorite game was deleted, well, they are back with only a few minutes worth of non-access.

If you regret that you can't view 15000 one word posts . . . well you have more time on your hands than I do. :

If your are upset that your post count fell. . . well . . get cracking. They are one word posts. You can do a thousand in a week.

If you are thinking it was directed at you personally. Get over your bad self.

Tom Earp · #71 12-21-2003, 03:48 PM

deltababy, not needed to be posted, for a myrid of reasons, there is already a vengefull angle out there who seems to be doing it!

As far as deleting a post, it is not to be your decision alone, but others who are Moderators!

I hope you were putting this on here as a tongue in cheek statement!

If the case, then I bow my head to you!

If not, then some should take heed as to what is said and done!

Not just making rash statements about deleting posts that You do not like, is not the way to do it!e!

This is not the thread to place something like this in either!

AXJules · #72 12-21-2003, 03:50 PM

I am tempted to say that this is the GHEYEST argument I have ever seen on GC.

I have an honest question though-

A few of you have said something to the effect of "I'm just upset because my post count dropped significantly" or whatever....NONE of you have said why. You're a senior member after 100 posts....do you realize there's no prize or anything when you hit a certain number of posts?? God....did you go from 2300 to 2102? Or, **gasp** even worse, from 3000 to 2000??? OMG you guys, with the amount of time you all spend on here you will make them back very quickly. I would be curious to hear exactly why any of you care about post losses so much.

~~Jules~~
I don't know if you know this but it's not like frequent flier miles or anything.

PhiPsiRuss · #73 12-21-2003, 04:05 PM

The new Word Association thread was again deleted. There have been 2 "have you ever" threads deleted in the last 18 hours. The issue here isn't post count; I would be happy to see those threads not count for post totals - a feature that exists in vBulletin.

There has been no explanation by the one mod as to why this was done. This is creating a lack of trust in GC, and a clear demonstration of a lack of respect for others.

The1calledTKE · #74 12-21-2003, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by russellwarshay
There has been no explanation by the one mod as to why this was done.

I have no idea which chit chat mod did it but they don't need to explian themselves. GC is not a democracy. Mods are not voted in by popular vote or electoral college. John appoints them and lets them run their forums they way they see fit. The only thing you can do is pm John and there is no guarentee he will do anything either. We get the point some people are un happy. Lets quit beating a dead horse.

absolutuscchick · #75 12-21-2003, 04:21 PM

I could care less about my post count. Once I reached senior member I stopped posting just to up my post count. It just bothers me that two of my favorite threads were deleted. To be honest, I think that if post whoring is such a big issue, we should just get rid of the post count all together, I mean honestly how is it a big deal?? I just liked thinking up responses for those two threads (yes, I admit I am a gigantic LOSER!!!)

But if that's the way it is then whatever!!! It's not really that big of a deal. I think I was just already annoyed with my parents after spending the afternoon, and this was just how I expressed it!!