PNG , thank you for posing the question in a fashion that did not say I must amswere in order to justify my manhood. There is a good legitimate question posed that i want to give my opinion on. . But first , I'll adress one time , why particular posts were deleted.
Its simple , I started a thread about behavior on the main board. I felt it needed to be discussed. There were almost 60 replies. I went through and edited about 18 replies that in no way even mentioned the topic . If a reply had even one word that actually referenced the topic , I left the post up. I left up some that outright criticised what I was doing. However , If it totally did not address the serious topic thus hijacking the thread, I deleted it .
I have no problem with GB or Bliz or Crafty or anyone else. In fact both Bliz and GB have always been particularly nice with me. They are friends. I did not even look at who posted the threads. I simply evaluated whether in any remote fashion (even just one word in several paragraphs) , the posts addressed the topic. If they did not , I deleted them. The decision to use the moderator functions is not based on personalities , it is based on what I think is best for the site.
In answere to what I think is the legitimate question ......as to whether moderators should have to send an email evey time they edit or delete a post , my answere is no. Its so time consuming to even read everything and decide what to do. To have to follow up on every little deletion or editing act would be impossible. There's a lot of it that goes on behind the scenes without everyone knowing or making a big deal about it. That's how it should be. Even my best friend and fishing buddy Smokey has had some posts edited because he was a little too blunt with an answere (something about left eyed and right eyed and brown eyed bass
) If someone posts a personal threat , or some very bad pictures or profanity , or something way personal and hurtfull , a follow up email is sent. John is then copied. It seldom happens . Since none in question here has ever done anything like that , they wouldn't know that sometimes follow up emails are sent.
Lastly , I can count on one hand the number of times over the last five years I've explained the why of how I have moderate here. John never questions my decisions , I'm not making it a habit of letting other do so. Don't be surprised if questions like this get ignored in the future. I just don't have the time or desire to explain myslef every time I do something here. Its not part of the job description.