Deletion or "The Curse"?

[Murgatroyd]

One or the other just happened to the thread where I was collecting data about deleted threads. It was still listed in the Off-Topic forum, but when I clicked on it, I got an error.
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Did you delete this, Ming, or did it just mysteriously vanish?

The thread was titled "Ming, Please Do Not Delete This Thread". In it, I said:

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</font>This thread exists for the purpose of collecting data on the number and nature of the threads you have deleted. I want to know this to know if this is as common an occurrence as it seems to be. Please feel free to edit or delete any posts in this thread that do not address the subject of deleted threads.

Everyone: If you have had a thread deleted in the past few weeks, please let me know. Please include the name of the thread (if you can remember it), the topic of the thread, approximately when it was deleted, and any thoughts you might have on why it was deleted.

Thank you.
Murgatroyd
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This was a request for information. Before it vanished, there were 13 responses, but I had only seen the first 3. Could you please tell me what happened?

Murgatroyd

[Ming]

Yes I deleted it. First, it should have been posted in the Apolyton Forum. Second, you had already asked in other threads in the Apolyton forums for people to post the information there.

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Ming
CivII & Off-Topic Forum Moderator
Ming@Apolyton.net

[Murgatroyd]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Ming on 09-09-2000 08:14 PM</font>
Yes I deleted it. First, it should have been posted in the Apolyton Forum. Second, you had already asked in other threads in the Apolyton forums for people to post the information there.

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Ming, the requests in the Apolyton forum provided links to the thread you deleted. I posted those for two reasons: (1) to inform those reading the threads (who were likely to contribute to the thread) that I was collecting the information, and (2) to ensure that the thread would not vanish without a trace like those I was collecting information on.

I accept (after being told by everyone in no uncertain terms) that those with complaints should post here. However, this was not a complaint. It was my way of collecting information so I could make a better informed and documented complaint in the future, if the data justified it. I wanted to hear from everyone, even those who are too lazy to visit the Apolyton forum. Anything less would have been unscientific.

Murgatroyd.

[Ming]

You can call it whatever you want... It still belongs in the Apolyton forum. So, if you do it again in the OTF, it will be deleted.

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Ming
CivII & Off-Topic Forum Moderator
Ming@Apolyton.net

[Murgatroyd]

OK, Ming. My next one will be in the Apolyton forum. How do you recommend I spread the word to everyone in the Off-Topic forum about the thread without posting links to it all over the OT (as I cannot be sure of which threads which people will read)? I wouldn't want to get a vacation for spamming.

Murgatroyd
p.s. Couldn't you have just moved it here, "where it should have been posted"?

[Ming]

Put it in your signature...
If you post messages in other threads in the OTF, you will get restricted for spamming. If you start another thread about it, you will get restricted for doing what you were told not to do.

If people really care, they will come to the Apolyton forum. If they don't...

Plus, you can complain all you want... we are getting used to it anyway

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Ming
CivII & Off-Topic Forum Moderator
Ming@Apolyton.net

[Murgatroyd]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Ming on 09-09-2000 08:40 PM</font>
If people really care, they will come to the Apolyton forum. If they don't...

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Ming, I thought I had made myself clear . I wanted to hear from everyone, even those who normally wouldn't care enough to come here.

As you seem to be so inflexible about this, I will do what you suggest (as I am d*mn well not going to drop the issue, and as my other options involve a trip to Mingapulco.).

Murgatroyd

[Ming]

The rule is, complain in the Apolyton forum. It's that simple.

You can be angry all you want. But that doesn't make you special or give you a reason for the rule not to apply to you. The rule applies to everybody.

And I don't care if you drop the issue or not. It won't change how things are being done.

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Ming
CivII & Off-Topic Forum Moderator
Ming@Apolyton.net

[Caesar]

A lot of regulars come to the apolyton forum...

[Murgatroyd]

Ming, I would like to make a formal request. If you see a serious thread in the OT which you think belongs in the Apolyton forum, please move it instead of deleting it. I would have liked to see what people had to say on the topic. I am not getting much response to my new thread.

Murgatroyd

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