Just to clear things up: when mods delete posts, your post count is not affected.
When I made the thread, I had somewhat different ideas in mind. See this page for an example
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/10372p7.html
This is mostly what I want to stop. A while back, it was quotes without anything, but Bjarne remedied that to prevent them. Now they’re just typing nonsense; sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s even a genuine post (“thxxxx” or “i need this too” without anything else).
There’s been a lot of this in www lately. However I am only one person, and I can’t catch them all (especially in threads thousands of posts long). Perhaps someone has a grudge against me?
One thing I was thinking of was the ability to go back and delete posts in the archive (for mods who have time) because a lot of stuff goes uncatched.
Obviously the moderating people do in the lounge is very different, because it has a social element to it. For example in www, some solutions or URL’s posted in 2004 may not work anymore, but people still bring them up and whine about them not working.
One other thought that came to mind was locking or deleting threads past a certain date is not so simple. For instance some threads (who’s on now, most reponded forum ever, stickies) are very old, and somehow you’d have to set exceptions.
About the privacy concern: I think you make a good point about posts that have personal information, and may not be permanently deleted.
One way I thought about this was as follows:
The delete button for mods could have options... like
- duplicate post
- nonsense (“spam” as they call it in lounge) (for example a post that says 'yeah' or 'hi' without anything else or gibberish)
- real spam (advertising)
- flaming/profanity/trolling/fighting
- personal information
with personal information going for perma-delete (perhaps after review)
Of course these are just ideas...
The bottom line is, where and how do we want to store things? Delete it? Archive it? Archive it offline? I don’t think the site will crumble under its weight (I mean these are just bits on hard drives), but some management may prevent information overload.
One thing which may not be implementable, which I’d always wanted to see, was splittable threads. Often times people make posts totally unrelated to the original thread, but with valid points. The thread title doesn’t reflect it, making it difficult to search. You’d just cut the thread at the post that goes off a tangent, and make it another thread. Of course in the lounge that’s sometimes ok because it’s social, but in www, I wish we could maintain some order.
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