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To: ThePythonicCow
"But you shoulda told me. You can be blunt, you can do so after the fact, without further discussion or recourse. Just a private message saying "pulled - garbage" would have been sufficient."

As I understand it, the moderators on this site are volunteers, meaning they give of their own personal time to help out here.

While it would be nice for them to provide an explanation for every action they take in moderating, after moderating a forum myself, I can tell you that explaining every deletion is impossible. Moderators have lives, too, and if they get into a discussion with every poster about the post they moderated (which is bound to happen -- because usually people aren't satisfied with the first explanation, or even the tenth), they won't get much else done.

I have a hunch if you leave you'll regret it. The point you are trying to make will be forgotten by most by tomorrow, and within a few weeks or months only a handful if that will consciously still miss you. You, on the other hand, will miss FR continuously. It's obviously been a big part of your life, and I promise you the hole left in your life will be much bigger than the hole left here by your leaving.

140 posted on 06/25/2009 3:43:34 AM PDT by TruthSetsUFree
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To: TruthSetsUFree
I agree entirely. I am assuming that this is easily automated. A thread pull, in addition to removing the links and replacing the target page with a short "pulled" notice, should also send an automatic private message to the poster, with a link to the otherwise no longer accessible page now containing that "pulled" notice.
141 posted on 06/25/2009 3:50:47 AM PDT by ThePythonicCow (Mooo !!)
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