Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

OK, maybe I'm going crazy, but I swear I responded to a thread started by B5erik today in music where he wanted some feedback to an unidentified song. I can't seem to find it now and thought we couldn't delete threads anymore. Am I going crazy?

re: Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

The thread violated forum rules and was removed.

re: Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

Oh, OK thanks. It didn't seem like that sort of thread.

re: Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

I've been on this bandwagon for 11 years, but think I'm largely alone.

Threads/posts should never be deleted imo.

Delete the offending/illegal part, often only a single word or link, and write a brief line explaining why it was wrong. That would serve to be an example to others as to what not to do; plus keep all the worthwhile discussion/comments in play.

re: Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

It wasn't.

Something that I included in the video for YouTube purposes inadverntently ran afoul of a forum rule that I wouldn't have imagined that it could have possibly violated.

There was no violation intended, and the topic/thread itself was fine. It was a web address briefly shown in the video that set X off. I certainly didn't mean to violate any rules here. I've been on this board for 10 years now and have always tried to follow the rules.

Live and learn, I guess.

Re: Thread from Music talk disappeared?
 

The thread still exists... in a moderator archive.

The main reason that threads are removed from sight in this manner is to reduce the risk of a situation escalating (or an offence being compounded) while still leaving the door open for something to be salvaged if deemed to be appropriate.

Methinks that a hard and fast rule always to edit and leave a message - rather than to remove posts/threads to a "safe haven" - could result in significant extra work for moderators; something which I think is unreasonable to impose on the volunteers - of which I am one. I do believe, however, that we regularly take on board member suggestions that could achieve a mutually acceptable/beneficial result.

Even where we don't accede to a particular request or suggestion, it is usually considered by a number of moderators rather than being ignored although, for the above-stated reason, we can't go public with the results of each and every discussion.

I didn't ever see the video in question so can only guess that it breached the rules against "piracy" or "no self-promotion" or "forbidden sites". Absolutely no disrespect is intended towards B5Erik if I've guessed incorrectly.

By the way, as a DVDTalk.com forums member of a decade or more myself, I can say that I certainly read the rules several times way before I was asked to help out as a moderator and I would always recommend diligent members to do the same.

(At one point - possibly still - a condition of sign-up was that you had read and agreed to abide by the rules. I agree that they're quite long... but not so long and abstruse that they are difficult to follow, IMO).

NB) Genuine mistakes are usually looked upon with some lenience and I don't think that the particular infraction here resulted in a suspension... or anything more serious.