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H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Fri, Jun 5, 2009 11:50 AM Why don't I delete topics? Tom Slick, you nailed it. I do everything I can possible to make sure the words you write will stay here, visible to others, for as long as possible -- I plan for it to be beyond my lifetime. I know a lot of idle-chatters posts get made here on Tiki Central, but it's also home to a lot of incredible knowledge that you cannot find anywhere else. And it comes from you guys, not me. They're your words, and if you don't feel like you have control over them, you're not going to want to post here anymore. That applies the same for the detailed knowledge posts as it does for the jokes, comments, and everything else here on the forum. And, as it applies to controversial topics: It's not my job to remove people's feet from their mouths. If someone has an ugly side, or simply an ugly moment, I'm not doing the community any favors by hiding it from them. That being said: very little gets edited or deleted here by someone who is not the original author. Here's a general rundown: Comments that users tell me are harmful are generally left but, but I politely try to discuss the situation and ask the original poster edit or change their own words. Most of the time this gets the comment changed. Complaints of copyright infringement are generally cause to edit someone's post. This means when the original creator of an image asks me to remove it from a post, I tend to comply. When a NSFW pic that gets complaints is posted, I'll change it to a link with a text warning to others, rather than deleting it. I've removed extreme "taboo" hate comments in a handful of instances. A few times in the past I outright deleted posts from some of the more controversial drunk posters in instances where I caught it minutes after posting. I don't do this anymore. This was when I was still learning the negative affects of hiding people's ugly sides from the community. All other edits are fixing typos: bbCode errors, broken links, etc. I always leave the reason for edit in the post. Mahalo! Let's gets get back to Tiki! Hanford

Why don't I delete topics? Tom Slick, you nailed it.

I do everything I can possible to make sure the words you write will stay here, visible to others, for as long as possible -- I plan for it to be beyond my lifetime. I know a lot of idle-chatters posts get made here on Tiki Central, but it's also home to a lot of incredible knowledge that you cannot find anywhere else. And it comes from you guys, not me.

They're your words, and if you don't feel like you have control over them, you're not going to want to post here anymore. That applies the same for the detailed knowledge posts as it does for the jokes, comments, and everything else here on the forum. And, as it applies to controversial topics: It's not my job to remove people's feet from their mouths. If someone has an ugly side, or simply an ugly moment, I'm not doing the community any favors by hiding it from them.

That being said: very little gets edited or deleted here by someone who is not the original author. Here's a general rundown:

Comments that users tell me are harmful are generally left but, but I politely try to discuss the situation and ask the original poster edit or change their own words. Most of the time this gets the comment changed.
Complaints of copyright infringement are generally cause to edit someone's post. This means when the original creator of an image asks me to remove it from a post, I tend to comply.
When a NSFW pic that gets complaints is posted, I'll change it to a link with a text warning to others, rather than deleting it.
I've removed extreme "taboo" hate comments in a handful of instances.
A few times in the past I outright deleted posts from some of the more controversial drunk posters in instances where I caught it minutes after posting. I don't do this anymore. This was when I was still learning the negative affects of hiding people's ugly sides from the community.
All other edits are fixing typos: bbCode errors, broken links, etc. I always leave the reason for edit in the post.

Mahalo! Let's gets get back to Tiki!

Hanford

Post #459308 by hanford_lemoore on Fri, Jun 5, 2009 11:50 AM