Soo...what's with all of the disappearing threads?
“Writing standards” don’t apply to these and several came from non-trolls so what gives?
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The only questions that have been removed today that don’t fit the parameters you mentioned were about lurve. Bendrew decided long ago that the only lurve celebrations would be for multiples of 10,000.
^ Why are those even needed when they have no value or meaning, as some has repeated over the years?
@canidmajor [...strictly speaking, none of the questions are needed.
There are a few that are…....
@Hypocrisy_Central They aren’t needed. Like @canidmajor said, none of the questions are needed. The entire site is unneeded. Nobody will die without it. But not everything in the world is about need.
^ I’ll bite. What questions are needed? Really?
Not that it would be the only question, but it is one I can think of off the top of my head; a question from a new home buyer about a title issue, it may be quicker for them to ask here, and even better if someone in their region, than pouring through tons of documents they might not be able to follow, that someone who has done it might be able to simplify and make it easier to understand. Questions along those lines.
On the surface, perhaps helpful. In reality, though, trusting the casual word of an unvetted stranger on the Internet, about whom you have no actual knowledge of their knowledge, over a professional whom you can verify in person, not such a good plan. Likewise with medical questions, automotive questions, etc.
I stand by my foist post. Not needed.
@canidmajor In reality, though, trusting the casual word of an unvetted stranger on the Internet, about whom you have no actual knowledge of their knowledge, over a professional whom you can verify in person, not such a good plan
It is no real difference from what people do in the real world all of the time with little thought. ”Where is the best sushi bar near here?”, “Is the parking garage on the corner cheap in rates compared to the one near the Hyatt?”, “I am trying to get to City Hall, and I have to get there quick, what is the best route to take?”. Questions like that get asked of strangers all of the time, and people take the info and either believe it, or keep asking, usually there is no way to vet out the person asked as to if they truly know their city as well as you think, they know if a price is fair or not.
Likewise with medical questions, automotive questions, etc.
Those require some diagnosis, to simply say my battery drains when my car is off, could be anything as there are too many things it could be to say without testing and examination to eliminate possibilities.
If ‘Why doesn’t he like me?’ isn’t a valid question,what is?
Besides. NONE of US are ‘needed ’ either.
^^ Yeah, what happened to that thread??
^ It’s in editing. It will be back as soon as one of us approves it – after the OP has sent it back to us.
I have no evidence but I would think that the same number of questions get edited but we notice it more because there are fewer questions being asked.
I just took another glance at the “Liberals and codgers” thread and there are a million things edited off of it. It’s not in General. When I see a lot of heavy editing for questions that are not in General and did not contain personal attacks, I wonder why the heavy modding?
@jca The thing with modding is that if there is one personal attack and then lots of posts referring to it, all the referring posts have to be modded as well, otherwise they don’t make sense. In that thread, there are 2 posts modded for personal attack. All the rest refer directly or indirectly to those two. There is a third one about a typo in the question. As the question is now edited and corrected that post is modded too. Hope this helps.
The mods do an awesome job.
What made me wonder specifically about that question was that it had been up for a week, with 100+ answers, and then got kicked back to editing once the discussion kind of got off track.
I know the modding process is full of complexities and has evolved to this point over 9+ years with good intentions throughout, but with the understanding that this conversation is about items disappearing, what is the reason to not just edit the spelling/typo without the disappearance? It would appear the end result is the same, without pulling the question down.
Again, I’m sure there is a reason, and this isn’t a critique, just closing the loop.
^ We only do that when users ask us to do it. The reason being that we never want to correct a typo and then be accused of changing the meaning of the post. People could understandably end up being very enraged if we started changing their posts without permission, so we just steer clear of ever doing that even for small grammar fixes.
Sometimes you get a question kicked back at you and you jump through the hoops and leap over the hurdles you are told to make but the question still gets lost in the “peat-mod”, never to be seen again…...
@funkdaddy Only one moderator is empowered to edit other people’s contributions, and my understanding of the situation is that they cannot edit question details on their own. They can only edit titles. And like @Mariah said, Bendrew were of the opinion that it was better to let people do their own edits than to do them on our own unasked and potentially make jellies feel like we were changing their meaning on them. I know a lot of sites have moderators that edit for their users. I actually run such a site. But Fluther has a different moderation philosophy.
@Hypocrisy_Central I have never seen that happen. Something I have seen, however, is that people fail to make the necessary edits but send the question back anyway. This gets the question sent back to them. And if they consistently refuse to make the changes, the question may eventually be rejected.
There is also at least one jelly who submitted so many typo-laden questions, and who required an average of six attempts to catch them all when their questions were sent back, that they were told that they would only have one chance to edit their questions in the future. But that’s the only exception I can think of, and they still get a chance to edit.
Before anyone gets upset, this jelly is a native English speaker and almost always gets it right on the first try now.
^ I have never seen that happen
I can think of at least 5 questions of mine in which it vaporized in the last two years when I sent it back after making the changes the mods recommended, go figure….......
@Hypocrisy_Central I’ve just scrolled through your recent questions (I can see the rejected ones) and can confirm that you are incorrect. For the sake of your privacy, I will PM you further details.
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