Deleting other's posts

[willat]

What is the criteria for this to be done? Can I just browse through the posts and have the ones that I don't like deleted?

Gee, no one bothered to delete the thread when I was falsely accused of cheating a few season's back.

It is my understanding that the forums are open to all to post as they wish. I've seen many topics that have nothing to to with baseball. Why was my thread deleted, especially dealing with one player calling another a cheater, which was subsequently proven to be entirely false?

I'd like to get a response from one of the administrators as to exactly why my thread was deleted, and what the rules are, and which rule that that particular thread violated.

[takaplan]

Because I received a message from the commissioner requesting your thread be deleted.

The commish is allowed to request that we moderate/delete/sticky posts in their own private league forum.

Tom

[willat]

Thanks for the response, although I must give a big thumbs down to trampling that free speech takes here.

[jordsjays]

I think what might of happened is yours was a reply to an original post and the original poster deleted his thread thus deleting all the replys with it.I'm also in this league and am pretty sure thats what happened

[takaplan]

The commish requested the post be deleted, which he/she is allowed to do, and I deleted it.

[willat]

What happened was someone else in our league started a thread where he accused another player of cheating, right off the bat without making the slightest effort to find out what really happened.

Turned out that the commish knew all about it, the poster was 100% wrong, and there was no problem at all. Then, instead of just a quick apology, the poster was adamant that it wasn't his fault, how is he supposed to know etc... real 3rd grade spineless stuff.

Then I posted the above opinion (that he should apoligize). The poster deleted the thread right after that, so my post got deleted with the thread. I wanted others to have a chance to read it, so I started my own thread with that same post. Shortly there after, the moderators moved in and deleted MY thread without my approval.

That is why I started this thread, about deleting other's posts. I think the commish owns the league, not the boards, and nobody should be able to have someone else's opinion deleted just because they want to.

To bad you missed it jordsjay, I even mentioned you in the post! Maybe you'll get to see it someday when the Constitution is resurrected and the pinko commie policies on these boards is toppled. :D

[James Grove]

Hi, Willat -

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you about the boards.

The idea of a private league is that the league belongs to the commissioner to do with as he pleases.

We view the league discussion boards as an integral extension of the league. We just happen to use the same technology to run it that we use on our other discussion boards. (It saves us the expense and effort of purchasing and running multiple discussion board systems.)

So if the commish wants us to delete a post in his board, we generally will do so. (Although we try to avoid doing it too much, since it can be time consuming...)


On a separate note, can I ask you to put your .sig in quotation marks, and add " -- Stripes" I want to make sure that people know you are quoting a movie, and not just posting a potentially offensive comment.

Thanks,
James Grove

P.S. I thought "SS" was perhaps too inflamatory...

[willat]

I think that it takes a lot away from using the boards when you know that your post can be deleted by someone else simply because they don't like/agree/want to bother with what you are saying.

I'll respectfully state that the policy of deleting posts is much too restricting and neuters the message boards to the point where they will become an uninteresting part of Baseball Mogul.

Now that I know that any post I make, or any thread I start can be deleted just because the commish asks you to do so, I'll have to consider whether it is even worth my time to use the boards at all.

I never knew of this policy before, and even though I have made over 300 posts, I never had any altered or deleted before it happened 3 times to me in the last day.