Back in the day there was not so many I's in team. My comment almost verbatim and in its entirety:Ĭount all the I's in that essay. The fact that you trumped it up here is telling: My comment to the college application post was similiarly mild. And the use of past tense for the here-and-now statuses is kind of spooky. Still a lot of theory in that report so i am not drinking the Kool Aid. My reply to the weather post was almost exactly this : If you do not then you really discredit yourself by responding with sort of what you think i said (totally not verbatim). Jessamyn you may not have a record of what you deleted but if you do please review. Ok that reply is a fabrication for both examples. If you're not trolling you may have to adjust your joke-o-meter a little." Please feel free to let us know if it was the "who needs the facts" comment in the weather thread or the weird racist-sounding "maybe I didn't get into dartmouth because I didn't have an African name" comment in this thread? You seem to be trolling. "We've deleted a few of your comments just in the past two hours. It would be interesting to know as a partial answer to the post, which as i said, is to try to understand why some comments are deleted and other comments are left standing.Īs for the moderator replies, thank you, but at least one of them is puzzling: Maybe the moderators who have replied could speak to that. Yes Colonel Panic is back and if there was consistent moderation many of the comments above would be deleted, and maybe some have. Odds are good that a few people will come in and agree that the mods delete too much or that they delete anything that doesn't toe the party line or that Metafilter used to be better because there are people who are on record as having these opinions, but a vague MeTa looking for everyone to jump in and agree with you based on the disingenuous "I just want what's best for Metafilter!" doesn't seem like it's going to garner tons of support. If you're looking for a groundswell of popular support, which it sounds like you are when you say "This is just to get some opinions on the moderation here and if enough people chime in about unwarranted (random?) comment deletion maybe.", I'm not sure you're going to get the outcome you want. This is pretty vague as you don't say what thread you're talking about or what the comments were, and the phrase "one of the better moderators" is not particularly helpful (although I appreciate you being vague here! This does not seem like a productive area for discussion! Please please please let's not have it!) I also think all of the moderators are the better moderators, though I'll admit to a soft spot for Cortex's funnier deletion reasons, and gnfti has a nifty name. Using "censorship" to mean "some of my one liners keep being deleted" dilutes what censorship actually means as a means of pervasive, inescapable social control on the part of a powerful entity like a government or company. Websites are not public utilities which are required to tolerate anything anyone writes, and if one wishes to have a free-for-all there's always YouTube Comments, Newspaper comments, or even your own blog. I'm not a huge fan of claims of anti-censorship on the internet. I've learned a lot from the moderator discussion of how, why, and when they delete, and while the lack of them moderating things exactly as I want them to sometimes stings, and in more difficult threads I take regular breaks, that's more a part of being part of an incredibly diverse community like MeFi and having the mode of cultural change be beanplating than anything else. I've had one comment deleted that I know of, and it was a good deletion given the context, and Jessamyn sent me a short note about it despite that not being what they usually do.
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