Calvin said:I think it was more on topic than some of the stuff left. Like, for example:
Clearly they weren't going for off topic stuff, how could you on this forum? 75% of posts are off topic. I think we're getting way too censor happy about things that *might* hurt feelings. This is public, hurt feelings is a risk you take by partaking in public discourse.
From what you told me, it really wasn't on topic at all. I'm making my best guess here. For all I know it was accidentally checked and got deleted with the others (which seemed to be from only two posters). It can easily happen... I've done it, but I use soft-delete so I can remedy it.
See, this is exactly the reason why complaints begin to fall on deaf ears, because when something like this happens, many posters automatically go looking for slights/conspiracies/maliciousness/etc. as the reason something was done... and when a mod replies, 'I'm sorry, it was an accident', they don't believe it (and even if the mod corrects it posters will say that they 'caught' the mod being unfair and the mod had to back down), so what's the point of even bothering to comment at all.