threads being deleted

kilasuit

i think if a thread has been deleted then the OP and any subscribers should be emailed as to let them know the reason of the thread being deleted

soolin

kilasuit wrote: »

i think if a thread has been deleted then the OP and any subscribers should be emailed as to let them know the reason of the thread being deleted

Why exactly?

Also are you volunteering to pay for one or two members of staff to do that for the possibly hundreds of posts removed every day?

fermi

As far as I remember it is a deliberate MSE policy to NEVER comment on why a thread or post has been removed.

Presumably that stance has been adopted on legal advice, so I can't see it changing.

ThinkingOfLinking

soolin wrote: »

Why exactly?

Also are you volunteering to pay for one or two members of staff to do that for the possibly hundreds of posts removed every day?

I agree. Personally, I'd rather the MSE team were allowed to get on with helping us all save money and find great deals etc than having to play mummy to a load of toddlers. In my experience, threads are not removed for no reason, and the MSE team have enough on their plate, so just leave it and move on.

Consumerist

Many threads must have become irrelevant with the passage of time. Seems reasonable to delete them rather than clutter the system with them.
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robt_2

Consumerist wrote: »

Many threads must have become irrelevant with the passage of time. Seems reasonable to delete them rather than clutter the system with them.
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If nobody is posting on them due to their relevancy with time, surely you must be actively looking for the threads for them to be an issue? Old threads just move to the bottom of the lists.

Consumerist

What I meant is do we need to keep theads referring to some hot discount in Woollies three years ago?
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bluey890

soolin wrote: »

Why exactly?

Because it would be useful to prevent recurrences..?

soolin wrote: »

Also are you volunteering to pay for one or two members of staff to do that for the possibly hundreds of posts removed every day?

Board Guides are not paid.

soolin

bluey890 wrote: »

Because it would be useful to prevent recurrences..?



Board Guides are not paid.

So you don't mean let the moderating team who actually remove most of the posts and threads do the PM then.

OK, so how do I as a BG know when threads or posts have been removed, and also as there is no requirement for me to log in at all at any given interval how do I let posters know a thread has been removed straight away, I can't see the point of someone like me stockpiling PMs for a week, by then you'd have forgotton what the post was about anyway Also as you rightly point out I am a volunteer and have better things to do that wait for the Forum Team to email me and tell me to pm users about deleted threads.

Lastly, if the team have to pm me to tell me to pm users about deleted threads aren't we back to my original question "Also are you volunteering to pay for one or two members of staff to do that for the possibly hundreds of posts removed every day?"