I've deleted troll posts on a story of mine before, and my own comments too. I don't like the idea of anyone getting to read deleted posts.
The way I see it is that the OP "owns" the poll or story and all the comments on it, NOT the community. The logical continuation of this is that the OP has a right to police their own stories however they want. The reason I think this is that the premise of the site is primarily to give advice to the OPs, not to contain a community (in my opinion).
In the case of poll creators like nobleserpent, I personally think they go too far in deleting comments. I think they should be allowed to do so, but the consequence is that the ideas aren't taken seriously by anyone. In a story where the OP removes any comments they disagree with, the punishment for them is that they don't get good, various advice.
Maybe a good compromise is that the OP could hide comments and give a reason, such as "this comment is offensive" etc. It stays hidden until the mods see it, and the mods could choose to over-ride that decision and bring back the comment if they thought the OP was wrong to delete it. Does that make sense?
The main problem with all this is that it creates extra work for the mods. TheManagement has said before, if I remember rightly, that there's only a very small number of mods (hence why stories don't get approved instantly), and taking responsibility from OPs to delete offensive comments and giving it to mods would just make more work for them. Changes to the site might slow down, stories and polls might take longer to approve.
Finally, what is offensive and what is funny is not black and white. Some people might find a post funny while others could be offended. Whether it's a mod or the OP, somebody has to make that call and it isn't always going to be a call you agree with.
I'm not saying yours is a bad idea, just that I disagree with it. I think it works fine as it is.
I've noticed serpent doing that even with decent comments. I'm starting to lost interest in responding to his stories. The irony is in complaining that everyone else is getting angry yet not being able to handle differing opinions. Ho hum
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I've deleted troll posts on a story of mine before, and my own comments too. I don't like the idea of anyone getting to read deleted posts.
The way I see it is that the OP "owns" the poll or story and all the comments on it, NOT the community. The logical continuation of this is that the OP has a right to police their own stories however they want. The reason I think this is that the premise of the site is primarily to give advice to the OPs, not to contain a community (in my opinion).
In the case of poll creators like nobleserpent, I personally think they go too far in deleting comments. I think they should be allowed to do so, but the consequence is that the ideas aren't taken seriously by anyone. In a story where the OP removes any comments they disagree with, the punishment for them is that they don't get good, various advice.
Maybe a good compromise is that the OP could hide comments and give a reason, such as "this comment is offensive" etc. It stays hidden until the mods see it, and the mods could choose to over-ride that decision and bring back the comment if they thought the OP was wrong to delete it. Does that make sense?
The main problem with all this is that it creates extra work for the mods. TheManagement has said before, if I remember rightly, that there's only a very small number of mods (hence why stories don't get approved instantly), and taking responsibility from OPs to delete offensive comments and giving it to mods would just make more work for them. Changes to the site might slow down, stories and polls might take longer to approve.
Finally, what is offensive and what is funny is not black and white. Some people might find a post funny while others could be offended. Whether it's a mod or the OP, somebody has to make that call and it isn't always going to be a call you agree with.
I'm not saying yours is a bad idea, just that I disagree with it. I think it works fine as it is.
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I've noticed serpent doing that even with decent comments. I'm starting to lost interest in responding to his stories. The irony is in complaining that everyone else is getting angry yet not being able to handle differing opinions. Ho hum
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Yeah well you smell funny.
In all seriousness I've pretty much stopped deleting Comments. It appears the ones being deleted are done by the posters themselves.
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There's a shit ton of guys partying outside my apartment. Fuck these people.
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There's birds fluttering around my window.
They can chirp, fly; heck they can poll dance if they want, but when they mess with my Window......well then we have a Problem.
You raise good points, as always. I guess I'm just a bit irked by the censorship that goes on. I get your point about the advice/community thing.
And I think we can all agree that not piling extra work on moderators is a good thing.