[bc2]

I think you guys do a good job but you delete too much stuff. Some things should be left for the record. If someone is banned or whatever, I don't think their comments should also be removed. Let them stand for the record.

For instance, I was posting last week on an old thread about abortion protesters on campus, and the girl who wrote the posted article in the U of Kansas paper showed up to blather on her pro-abortion mantra. She was banned and all of her comments removed. It would probably be better to let that sort of thing stand for the record.

All-in-all, I think that you guys do a pretty fair job, you just delete FAR too much stuff.

[Dec31,1999]

I think you guys do a good job but you delete too much stuff. Some things should be left for the record. If someone is banned or whatever, I don't think their comments should also be removed. Let them stand for the record.

That's a really good point. We, as FReepers have to stand by ALL of our comments ever made forever, by lot's of the complete idiots get to have their comments tossed into the memory hole. The incentive mechanism is not quite right.

[Admin Moderator]

When a newbie troll is nuked, all his posts and threads are removed. If there are certain posts you'd like restored, just ask, most times, unless vulgar or profane, we will restore them.

[hellinahandcart]

For instance, I was posting last week on an old thread about abortion protesters on campus, and the girl who wrote the posted article in the U of Kansas paper showed up to blather on her pro-abortion mantra.

She just "happened to show up" on an old thread, took issue with things that had been said months ago, told all of you not to judge her, and cited lots of over-the-top stories from her personal life in order to demonstrate why everyone on the thread was just a woman-hating Christian? While being very combative?

Yeah, we've seen the M.O. before. That's the Insider Troll. When someone shows up out of the blue claiming to be the person who wrote the article, the person in the article, or a friend or relative thereof, don't feel you have to take their word for it. Most of them are posers.

I keep a ping list for Insider Troll sightings. They're very entertaining. :D