Yesterday I posted a response to a thread in the
US coins forum and the thread was subsequently moved to the Error & Variety sub-forum. While I don't dispute that, why is there no notification of such a move? There should either be a redirect or even perhaps an email sent to let members participating that the thread was moved. The only way I found it was by going into my profile and looking for my post history.
More disturbing however was a separate original post to the
US coins forum I posted an hour later that was apparently summarily deleted with no notice, email or otherwise. This was not listed in my post history but did show up after I posted it.
While I understand that the moderators have a difficult job and must sometimes make decisions like this, whether I agree with the decision or not, the poster at least should be notified of such a move, especially for a summarily deleted post. I am a forum moderator in other forums myself and know how this works. I would never delete a thread without some sort of notification. If the forum software does not support automated notifications then it should be updated to do so.
The post that was deleted was not controversial, did not include bad language or was off-topic. It was my opinion on how certain coins have progressed over the years. It was, in my opinion, germane to the ideals of the forum and should have remained as part of it.
Now I have to rewrite the whole post and post it again, I had not saved it as I wrote it within the forum itself.
Please explain the procedure for deleting posts and the guidelines that moderators follow when doing so? I am curious if my post was deleted by mistake, as a technical glitch or for cause.
Posted 12/10/2018 11:47 pm
