Deleting Threads (and Posts)

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okay a thread i just started got moved by GW... it was totally painless... and i have no doubt it will make for easier finding because i really didn't know where to post my question to begin with...

i have never had any problem with that issue....things need to be and remain organized...

but sl...you have touched upon what i have been trying to convey... When things are deleted... they are forever lost....when a newbie comes in and meets someone... and they want to know that person they do searches.... and in those searchs are our thought and ideas... our strengths and our weaknesses...it is a record of who we are as as indiviuals and who we are as a community....and the little things are just as telling as the large....

i love to tease... it is as much a part of me as the color of my eyes... but i don't do it a lot because i never know how anyone will react to it...but it usually shows up in the most peculiar places...

so if someone does a search of me... that part of my personality could and probably would be totally lost..simply because it is usually when thing get totally off course that i see the humor the keenest...

*grin* example:



code of contact

in a thread about conduct one of the most important issues discussed is about not hijacking threads and keeping them on topic...i honestly mean no offense but i find it totally hilarious that the post made by you was :

Hey!
Hey, kittenfemme, you're back! Did you have a nice birthday?

sl


*giggle* love, you hijacked the code of conduct thread...

*soft smile* the thing is... you are wonderful in that post... you are warm... and welcoming... it shows your heart and your caring...it show your joy at finding your friend...

Would it make a differnce in that thread if it was gone...not in the sense of the code... but that thread would lose something anyway... it would lose a moment of joy...and that to me would be a real loss....

If you found out that single off topic post was going to be deleted would you fight for it? Would it really matter to you? Probably not but that wouldn't change the fact that a post, made by you, that said something about who you are as a person... and about this community as a whole, would be lost... and that loss in my own opinion would just be sad....