Just A Suggestion

[Sir Burr]

When the Mods close a thread, they usually put a reason. Like "this thread is going nowhere", or, "posters are behaving like children" etc.

But, when a thread is deleted, people don't know why and are free to make the same transgression again.

My suggestion is, when a thread is completely deleted, the Mod can then start a thread with the same name as the deleted thread, put down the reason why it was closed and then close it so that people cannot reply to it.

At least this way people will get educated as to why the thread was closed.

[Jai Dee]

Normally threads are deleted for 1 of 3 reasons:

1. Because either a flame fest has started, resulting in too much cleanup work for the mods to deal with.

2. Violation of this rule:

No disrespect of the King of Thailand or The Thai Royal Family! Discussion of topics concerning the King or other current or deceased members of the Thai Royal Family is forbidden.

3. Violation of this rule:

Discussion of moderation issues, actions or moderation policies concerning individual cases are not allowed in the forums. Such comments should be directed to a moderator or administrator, and not discussed on the forum.

If members paid more attention to the rules, then there would be less moderation required and less threads would be deleted.

Hope this helps.

[gburns57au]

Normally threads are deleted for 1 of 3 reasons:

1. Because either a flame fest has started, resulting in too much cleanup work for the mods to deal with.

2. Violation of this rule:

No disrespect of the King of Thailand or The Thai Royal Family! Discussion of topics concerning the King or other current or deceased members of the Thai Royal Family is forbidden.

3. Violation of this rule:

Discussion of moderation issues, actions or moderation policies concerning individual cases are not allowed in the forums. Such comments should be directed to a moderator or administrator, and not discussed on the forum.

If members paid more attention to the rules, then there would be less moderation required and less threads would be deleted.

Hope this helps.

I juswt had a thread deleted that breached none of those issues...guess that was Mods discretion then....

[meadish_sweetball]

"Normally" is the keyword. As stated in rule number three above, questions about individual moderator actions should be directly addressed to a Moderator or Admin by PM...

Apart from the above, discussion of topics touching on potentially illegal subjects can also be shut down or deleted for natural reasons. There are also some words and expressions that trigger undesirable mechanisms in search engines. etc.... etc...

[Jai Dee]

And... of course... SPAM.

[markuk]

Normally threads are deleted for 1 of 3 reasons:

1. Because either a flame fest has started, resulting in too much cleanup work for the mods to deal with.

2. Violation of this rule:

No disrespect of the King of Thailand or The Thai Royal Family! Discussion of topics concerning the King or other current or deceased members of the Thai Royal Family is forbidden.

3. Violation of this rule:

Discussion of moderation issues, actions or moderation policies concerning individual cases are not allowed in the forums. Such comments should be directed to a moderator or administrator, and not discussed on the forum.

If members paid more attention to the rules, then there would be less moderation required and less threads would be deleted.

Hope this helps.

I juswt had a thread deleted that breached none of those issues...guess that was Mods discretion then....

I had the same thing yesterday with no explanation - it was just a good humoured thread but by the looks of it someone didnt like.