Communication when a post is deleted

Good idea. Help us help OGR by avoiding posting pitfalls.

Agreed- most of this is automated anyway so a email notification should be easy to add and would be a nice courtesy.

No one likes getting the STOP message.....

It is NOT an automated process. This would require MANUAL ACTION by a moderator. That's a full time job.

Rich with respect to you and staff. I posted a thank you to one of our sponsors for his  website dedications to veterans on veterans day.  It got deleted within minutes after posting. No explanation on why. This causes me to wonder how we the member are to react to censorship of postings ?

I suspect that no matter how well intentioned the posts are, IF they are not directly train related, they tend to go off the rails pretty quickly. Forum history is replete with many examples.

John

@Rich Melvin posted:

It is NOT an automated process. This would require MANUAL ACTION by a moderator. That's a full time job.

Rich - Can Crowdstack automate it, after the moderator does the deletion? It can be a boilerplate email. “Your post was deleted because it violated one of the following rules…blah blah blah.” The poster can then recognize his infraction, and avoid it in the future.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Rich - Can Crowdstack automate it, after the moderator does the deletion? It can be a boilerplate email. “Your post was deleted because it violated one of the following rules…blah blah blah.” The poster can then recognize his infraction, and avoid it in the future.

An automated "boilerplate" email could be sent, but it would not solve anything because it cannot explain WHY a post was deleted. That will add to the problem, not solve it.

Just let it go...it ain't gonna happen.

I greatly appreicate the moderators trying to keep the fourm focused on trains and keeping the dialog civil. 

I suggest that for those that compose a long and thoughtful post,  write it in Word and keep a copy, so its availabe to repost at a later date.  Sometimes that hard work gets deleted due to problems from others.   

@Ron045 posted:

This post was deleted more than 24 hours ago with no notification.

Ron

I haven't seen that page before and I have had a few posts deleted.

I agree with you about the communication thing and I agree with what Rich said as well. I learned to just let it go and move on. They will delete your post if they don't like it and I'm sure it happens a lot.

If you are curious about a post deletion, send an e-mail to the mods and they will answer your question. I have done that myself a few times.

I agree with this post 100%. A reason should be given, and honestly why delete it? Just reply to it with the reason, and then lock it.

I don't think that you need a email when a post is deleted there are way too many for various reasons but I think some of the animosity towards this forum is when members are deleted without an email explanation or even a warning.  We all make mistakes that had the poster know what is was would be more than happy from refraining to repeat as long as they know what the infraction was.

But as they say it's not my house so I don't make the rules.

Maybe an enumerated menu of no no's where a digit could be attached to the thread to indicate the reason  for deletion of the post, for example:

1. NOT train related

2, profanity

3. Not related to the subject of the post

4. Etc., etc.

Only the numeral would be visible

ECI

Apparently Rich closed this topic so I am re-opening it to make a comment and then it will close again.

You guys don't seem to remember that when you joined this forum, you agreed to the terms of service.  Our TOS plainly states that we may/can delete, moderate, edit, (you name it) posts on this forum and we likely will not give an explanation.  MANY threads get littered with content that is not about the topic of the thread and sometimes those threads have so many posts that break our TOS or make comments that are political that we just don't have the time to surgically go through and edit the thread so it just gets deleted.

This forum has millions of pages views, hundreds of thousands of posts, and thousands of topics posted each month so how about just trying to understand that this is not a personal thing directed AT YOU when one of your posts in a thread gets deleted.  This forum is about our hobby and not about a lot of the posts that members put up here which are off topic not only take up bandwidth but costs us all money and time.  Keep your posts on topic and review the TOS so that you know what you can post and what you can't.  AND, if it isn't covered in the TOS then contact me and we can discuss it.  You may or may not agree with us but ... guys ... we are doing the best we can for the resources we have.