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19 years ago
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...can kill you.
Not that I expect this situation to prove fatal, but It's a point I felt needed emphasis. Here's the 411:
Oh so recently, a fellow by the name of "thertilethallad" commented on three of my images. However, by the time I got around to checking my messages, the comments had been deleted. A quick check of his userpage shows that evidently I'm not the only person not seeing this guy's comments, and a run further back shows that the people that -did- see his comments apparently felt they were inflammatory.
So the story unfolds that the guy is a asshole who got himself banned. Serves him right. Here's the thing: People might want to see what he had to say, if just to compose a defense.
I don't like the idea of arbitrarily blotting out things people have said just because we don't agree with them. Suppose this guy had said something threatening to me, and was now taking some action against me without my knowing? Or suppose somewhere in his slandering he had actually pointed out some information I could -use-?
For that matter, how do I know this person wasn't making perfectly sensible and reasonable commentary, and this ban is the work of someone's personal agenda on the mod crew? Deleting the entirety of someone's words as a matter of policy is sure a good way of covering your tracks if you want to ban people at will.
I'm not saying any of these things are the case, however I -am- saying that they easily -could- be, and represent a solid argument for why one should not go about casually wiping a person's comments, no matter how inflammatory, from the record.
Bad form, FA. Bad form.
Not that I expect this situation to prove fatal, but It's a point I felt needed emphasis. Here's the 411:
Oh so recently, a fellow by the name of "thertilethallad" commented on three of my images. However, by the time I got around to checking my messages, the comments had been deleted. A quick check of his userpage shows that evidently I'm not the only person not seeing this guy's comments, and a run further back shows that the people that -did- see his comments apparently felt they were inflammatory.
So the story unfolds that the guy is a asshole who got himself banned. Serves him right. Here's the thing: People might want to see what he had to say, if just to compose a defense.
I don't like the idea of arbitrarily blotting out things people have said just because we don't agree with them. Suppose this guy had said something threatening to me, and was now taking some action against me without my knowing? Or suppose somewhere in his slandering he had actually pointed out some information I could -use-?
For that matter, how do I know this person wasn't making perfectly sensible and reasonable commentary, and this ban is the work of someone's personal agenda on the mod crew? Deleting the entirety of someone's words as a matter of policy is sure a good way of covering your tracks if you want to ban people at will.
I'm not saying any of these things are the case, however I -am- saying that they easily -could- be, and represent a solid argument for why one should not go about casually wiping a person's comments, no matter how inflammatory, from the record.
Bad form, FA. Bad form.
Any clue what it was there to -do-? I mean, are we talking spambot, or what?
It is a bit comforting to hear that it might not be what it appeared to be.
Annoying really.