GeoffV Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Relax boys both your panties are in a bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 A**hole. Hey John, your one of them bitches that likes to change the rules to suit you needs aren't ya. Thats class dude. I thought you were leaving? Go on now... pout, stamp your feet and leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Nah, I think Ill hang on just a bit longer just to irritate the hell out of you. Sure is a good thing that your around to keep everything in line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Tat Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Not here to argue but the irony here will be BlueB having to delete this thread due to this silly cr@p storm polluting the end of it. And I'd like to say that there are some good points that were raised at the beginning that are getting lost now. My $0.02 Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex1230 Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDY_2_Carve Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 If you don't like it, leave. Not trying to defend anybody here...but with this atttitude I'm glad you're no longer a moderator. This place should be a place where we all share the stoke of the carve but it's really turning into a litter box. I think it started going downhill about the same time Billy Bordy was pushed out. I think if you guys would actually meet in person and put your online differences aside things would be a lot different. Everybody I've met IRL from BOL has been an amazing person and shared the true reason whey we are all here... Oh yeah. Over moderation kills online forums. From what I've seen Fin and Co. have the right stance on moderation here. It takes an act of god to really get banned. That's the way it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 As you can see by the rules referenced by scrutton, nothing has changed. The moment you post something on BOL, it becomes the property of BOL. We can delete or undelete as needed for the benefit of the forum. If you have a special case, we will gladly hear it over email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Not trying to defend anybody here...but with this atttitude I'm glad you're no longer a moderator. Me too. From what I've seen Fin and Co. have the right stance on moderation here. It takes an act of god to really get banned. That's the way it should be. The irony here is that you agree with the moderation but yet when I state the obvious, somehow I am the bad guy. Snowman has been banned three times. Three. Ironic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrol Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I find myself pretty much in agreement with BlueB & others here in that just because you started a thread, once the community has contributed, it belongs to the community. Feel free to delete your posts to satisfy and/or cleanse your sole if you must but leave the shared work of others unmolested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I think it started going downhill about the same time Billy Bordy stormed out. Fixed. He is still a member, fyi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonbordin Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 It takes an act of god to really get banned. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zone Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Regardless of rules and people's ego and hurt, I think any posts or threads is part of shaping up our sport (our any topics on any forum) over time. Deleting threads is like forgetting history and having to do it all over again, mistakes and all. History is full of mistakes not to be repeated and lessons to be learned. Forget your ego for a minute and work on shaping up ideas, good or bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allee Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Been discussed before, Fin & co like it the way it is. Personally I prefer a limited edit time and no thread deletion, and that's the way I run the board I mod. It's the same on the one I mod. A user can delete their own posts, but only the mods can pull the entire thread. And we generally refuse unless there's a very good reason, like it would compromise someone's domestic situation IRL. As our board owner says, we're not in the business of creating revisionist history. I'd agree that once someone else has posted on the thread, it should stay. By all means delete your own stuff, but you have no power over anyone else's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 It's really handy in Classifieds, after item(s) have sold...That can get set up on a forum by forum basis, and also by user group. So you can say user group X has the right to delete their posts or threads on forum Y but not on forum Z. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapster Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Another tangent--I find it curious that so many people delete the prices of their items in the classifieds after a sale. They're such good reference points for the rest of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrol Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 ....Deleting threads is like forgetting history and having to do it all over again, mistakes and all. History is full of mistakes not to be repeated and lessons to be learned... agreed... erase the mistakes & you're also erasing the lesson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik J Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I joined BOL in the late 90's. At the time I was a crack smoking necrophiliac. Through years of moderation, hard work and pills, I have become the upstanding citizen that I had always read about in magazines. If the moderators had moderated more moderately I would have gone off the deep end. Thank you BOL! You can count me as another notch on the proverbial bedpost of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekempmeister Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Hey fellas, what's going on? everybody just hangin' out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdea Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Another tangent--I find it curious that so many people delete the prices of their items in the classifieds after a sale. They're such good reference points for the rest of us. yeah, I'm not a fan of delete sale posts. for most of us it's not a big thing but some times it's useful and ALSO on other forums they don't allow users to delete sales because it's a way to keep people somewhat honest with certain things. for example, joey buys a board from stan for $150, three weeks later Joey sells a board he claims has only been ridden once for $200 but a search reveals that the board came from stan and probably has way more use than Joey says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc H Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I joined BOL in the late 90's. At the time I was a crack smoking necrophiliac. Through years of moderation, hard work and pills, I have become the upstanding citizen that I had always read about in magazines. If the moderators had moderated more moderately I would have gone off the deep end. Thank you BOL! You can count me as another notch on the proverbial bedpost of life. Not that I've learned that yet....but shiz that was the is one of the best posts yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc H Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 You are all a bunch of geeks who battle on threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Unfortunately too many have taken you up on [leaving] There I'd disagree ... If people are unable to deal in a sensible manner with an online discussion, then doing something else would seem to be a good idea. It's funny when these guys (they're always male, I think) storm off in their grown-up tantrums, but perhaps it's not good to laugh at people who perhaps have difficulties beyond how to hold an edge on ice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 The place most likely to warrant thread deletion is the OT section. That's where things get most heated, and rash words tend to get dashed out in the heat of the moment. Why not limit thread deletion to that section? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjvircks Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Another tangent--I find it curious that so many people delete the prices of their items in the classifieds after a sale. They're such good reference points for the rest of us. I'd like to add my voice to the above comment. I just bought a board here from a guy who doesn't have a big history here at BOL. Good deal. Good board. Good packing. Good communication. I'd like to leave a 'thumbs up' as a kind of endorsement in the sale thread regarding my dealings with him... but he deleted it. Sure, his 'for sale' post is done serving its immediate purpose of selling the board. Sure, deleting the thread clears server disk space for active useage. But there is a bit of value in others knowing I trusted this guy, he came thru for me and I'd probably buy from him again. EDIT: For the same kind of reasons... keeping these threads would be worthwhile if the deals go bad!! I bought a free-ride board off ebay a few years ago where the guy said the board was sound but was actually busted! Steel edge busted and coming off the side, but he insisted it wasn't a problem.:freak3: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I am a member of a car forum. Some members had posted extremely detailed DIYs with photos & step-by-step instructions on how to fix something. Gone way out of their way to be helpful. Very useful information. A member with very strong opinions became a (self-appointed?) moderator. He got into a shouting match with one of the big contributors. As a moderator, he had the ability to delete all of the content of the big contributor. Now, all of that information is gone along with the big contributor and the moderator. A loss of some really valuable information. Though a lot of the info on Bomber is more a matter of preference than fact, I hope a similar situation won't develop here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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