Forum TOS

[steveathome]

Forum TOS (Terms of Service), or guidelines are needed on any forum, without such, then how can posts be moderated?

I was recently in a PM discussion concerning a removed thread. I had no particularly interest in that thread, but noticed it missing, so asked.

I do not believe that any post/thread should simply be removed because, well, because of what? There must be some transparency, some tolerance, some, well, at least a known reason for a deleted posts/thread. Without a TOS, there are no guidelines, no policy. Should I expect one of my posts to be removed because of a party members dislike of such post? or that the replies to my post then cause problems, then all (the thread) should be removed?

Please think and consider this.

Regards,

- Steve

[borgs8472]

Moved to web discussion

As we've already discussed, I hadn't made my moderation best practice clear at the time of the incident you're discussing, whilst things were not ideal, nothing is going to be retracted in this case.

A TOS will likely be drawn up at a later stage, in response to future incidents. However the membership system mostly means that people moderate their own actions on the forums and thus things are self-regulating in the most part.

[steveathome]

Your moderation practice was not made clear, in fact quite the opposite.

Nothing in this world is clear, certainly from various secret policy. Should this be the case here?

[samgower]

To his credit, borgs has always endeavoured to have as much transparency as is possible, and this is something he has encouraged the moderators, including myself, to do.