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To: ThePythonicCow
OK - went back through the records and found it. There were two reported complaints by other freepers asking that the tread be pull because it contained "9/11 truther BS." On inspection moderators agreed and the thread was pulled.

The reason a thread is pulled is usually posted at the top of the thread when the the thread is reopened.

The decision of the moderator was agreed to by several others who looked at the content at the time.

Sorry that you are considering leaving. I'd say that you owe yourself the opportunity to communicate with the mods... it is easy you know - and learn why users and mods here have little tolerance for those that spin lies about what happened on 9/11.

NOTE - I personally did not review the post, but I have implicit trust in the people who did.

42 posted on 06/25/2009 1:35:55 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator
As I have stated above, I have no particular gripe about the reason it was pulled. FR gets to call those shots, hopefully with some modicum of visible consistency.

Just tell me it was pulled, perhaps by sending have an automatic private message that contains the no longer publicly visible link to the "This thread has been pulled" page at the time of the pull, stating that said linked thread was pulled.

I honestly don't expect to have a thread or post pulled. Having posted some 7000 FR posts without complaint before my first pull, it just didn't occur to me that was the problem back when I posted that bank-rate thread. I wasted another 30 or 40 minutes reposting that one after it was pulled the first time before convincing myself that the admin was working silently behind my back to erase my labors as soon as I posted them. By which time I was too pissed to trust myself to ask the admin, and went to bed.

Having stuff just disappear without any notice (that is likely to be seen by the poster) is too Draconian.

99 posted on 06/25/2009 2:38:45 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (Mooo !!)
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To: Admin Moderator

When we hit abuse, do you know the poster who is making the complaint? Or is it semi-anonymous (like you get see IP or something) or completely anonymous?

Just asking out of curiosity, no specific incident.


178 posted on 06/25/2009 11:24:39 AM PDT by retrokitten
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