Suggestion: I recommend sending people their deleted posts.
I find it annoying to spend the effort to type a post, only to have it disappear into a bit bucket. If you want it gone, that’s your prerogative, but I think it is a breach of etiquette for a forum to destroy information created by a forum user.
Now I assume you found the original post a breach of etiquette, so may feel that tit for tat is the right policy here. I’d consider an intentional breach of etiquette as an unnecessary escalation.
This seems like a good thing to do as a courtesy in cases where it seems reasonable.
If it were an actual policy, you’d want to put some limits on it, i.e. “if the post is longer than X words and/or contains something that was clearly meant to be intelligent thought.”
Suggestion: I recommend sending people their deleted posts.
I used to do that for a long time on a large-ish subreddit I mod. Eventually, it became too much of a burden, the workload footprint was too large. It may be a feasible policy to try and do that on LW, given the (hopefully) very low volume of deleted content.
This sounds a like something that could be handled by a script so as to be an utterly transparent process. In your role as a subreddit mod, it wouldn’t be so easy, but they have source access.
I find it annoying to spend the effort to type a post, only to have it disappear into a bit bucket.
Post deletion is apparently rare and will remain so. If you type a post which clearly falls under the deletion policy, you deserve to have it disappeared without a trace. I’m sure that borderline cases would be discussed first and you will have a chance to edit your submission.
Suggestion: I recommend sending people their deleted posts.
I find it annoying to spend the effort to type a post, only to have it disappear into a bit bucket. If you want it gone, that’s your prerogative, but I think it is a breach of etiquette for a forum to destroy information created by a forum user.
Now I assume you found the original post a breach of etiquette, so may feel that tit for tat is the right policy here. I’d consider an intentional breach of etiquette as an unnecessary escalation.
You can still see your own banned comments on your user page. This might be false for posts, I’m not sure.
Judging by Kodos96′s user page, the same is the case for posts, i.e., they are still visible after being “censored.”
This seems like a good thing to do as a courtesy in cases where it seems reasonable.
If it were an actual policy, you’d want to put some limits on it, i.e. “if the post is longer than X words and/or contains something that was clearly meant to be intelligent thought.”
I used to do that for a long time on a large-ish subreddit I mod. Eventually, it became too much of a burden, the workload footprint was too large. It may be a feasible policy to try and do that on LW, given the (hopefully) very low volume of deleted content.
This sounds a like something that could be handled by a script so as to be an utterly transparent process. In your role as a subreddit mod, it wouldn’t be so easy, but they have source access.
Good idea, that difference escaped my notice.
Post deletion is apparently rare and will remain so. If you type a post which clearly falls under the deletion policy, you deserve to have it disappeared without a trace. I’m sure that borderline cases would be discussed first and you will have a chance to edit your submission.