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Bogof_Babe

I am sure I posted on a thread yesterday, probably on Benefits board, where someone was adamant that their disabled relative was claiming "dependent's allowance" for his wife. I asked for a link as I have never heard of dependents allowance and thought they must mean Carers Allowance.

Anyway, there is no sign of that thread today, so I assume it must have been pulled. There is no trace of it in my User CP listings, and I did not unsubscribe to it.

To get to the point - is there any sort of routine protocol that if a thread is removed for whatever reason, a post is put on the relevant board to say so?

It would be extremely helpful if such a procedure was introduced, as I have been wondering whether I imagined the whole thing. I'm sure I didn't though .

Scarlett1

I know what thread you mean, havnt seen it since I read it yesterday

Bogof_Babe

Yes, thanks Scarlett, so I am not actually losing the plot. I do think a note could have been made on the relevant board, just so we know.

queensway_boy

Bogof_Babe wrote:

Yes, thanks Scarlett, so I am not actually losing the plot. I do think a note could have been made on the relevant board, just so we know.

nah,no need

Bogof_Babe

queensway_boy wrote:

nah,no need

Meaning what?

I moderate on another forum, and we always put a brief note if a thread is removed (unless it's an unrecognised spammer), e.g. "Blankety Blank thread has been removed at the originator's request". It avoids all those "where's it gone?" posts, that incidentally seem to occur quite regularly on here.

I just thought it would be courteous to those who had taken the trouble to post on it.

queensway_boy

Bogof_Babe wrote:

Meaning what?

I moderate on another forum, and we always put a brief note if a thread is removed (unless it's an unrecognised spammer), e.g. "Blankety Blank thread has been removed at the originator's request". It avoids all those "where's it gone?" posts, that incidentally seem to occur quite regularly on here.

I just thought it would be courteous to those who had taken the trouble to post on it.

nah no need to put a noteBGs and abuse have far more important things to do,it just is'nt practical,if your bothered just email/PM abuse/board guide and if they've time they will answer you but be safe in the knowledge that abuse or board guides have removed something for the benefit of MSE

jmarko

i'm not sure queensway's understood what's being asked for. the op's asking that a note be put in place of the original thread so that people can see that it's been removed. you wouldn't really even need an explanation. it would just tidy things up a bit. i agree that it would be useful. sometimes i think i've been on a thread and wake up in the morning wondering whether it has just been a dream*.

jmarko

*for 'dream' read 'nightmare' :rolleyes:

queensway_boy

it would add hours to an already overstretched job so i don't agree

Bogof_Babe

queensway_boy wrote:

it would add hours to an already overstretched job so i don't agree

Hours? You make it sound like threads are being removed w!lly nilly dozens of times a day.

If I were a board guide it wouldn't bother me to type a one-line comment perhaps once a week - I doubt it happens much more often than that.

queensway_boy

Bogof_Babe wrote:

Hours? You make it sound like threads are being removed w!lly nilly dozens of times a day.

If I were a board guide it wouldn't bother me to type a one-line comment perhaps once a week - I doubt it happens much more often than that.

i think only abuse can remove a thread


once a week:rotfl:

Bogof_Babe

queensway_boy wrote:

i think only abuse can remove a thread


once a week:rotfl:

Oh well, I will bow to your greater knowledge then. The boards I frequent in the main rarely seem to suffer from disappearing threads.

I obviously don't see enough life in the raw! (Or do I mean in the Arms? ).