Warrior Forum Ethics

Stan,

True. There's unlikely to ever be a consensus that pleases everyone on the definition of "pitch" for purposes of a discussion forum. That much we can probably agree on without any need for debate.

It was clear you made an effort not to actively pitch. Despite that, three people reported the post, including two who rarely use the report post function. For them, at least, your efforts weren't sufficient to the task. Or perhaps they just formed an impression based on how they perceived the overall tone of the thread. They weren't real specific.

Here's a thing you probably don't know about how this system is set up: If enough people report a post, that post is automatically soft-deleted. Which would have made your corrections invisible, while leaving the errors hanging out there.

You made an accusation based on inaccurate comments. Specifically, "I don't get really grasp how lies & inaccuracies are OK but corrections must be deleted." The inaccuracies weren't okay, which is why the whole thread was deleted. That would have happened just as quickly if you'd reported the post containing them.

(In case you're unfamiliar with that part of the system, which a lot of people don't know about, it's done using the little red triangle to the lower left of each post.)

The fact that a post exists does not mean the moderators agree with it. It means it hasn't been reported, or, much less commonly, was reported and not found to violate the rules. In this case, the post containing the factual errors had simply not been brought to our attention yet.


Paul