~d~,

First ammendment [snip] aside, I'll cut to the heart of the matter.

While I can appreciate that deleting posts feels like censorship, it's also living up to community standards. And community standards are outlined in the Code of Conduct.

We're talking in someone else's forum. It's not mine, not yours. This forum is Jinn's. While a community is made of its people, it is brought together under one understanding of how we will conduct matters, how we will I've been on other forums. I've seen people from other forums come in here and try to create unrest.

Recently I've learned that over at the BBC Survivor forum, there are different standards for behavior. Until Jinn alters this, I would continue to delete topic drift. Although I am usually pretty lenient about drift, mean spirited topic drift that starts flame wars is the first thing I'll delete.

If you had a chance to read the deleted post*, I could point out clearly that the message went from a great, direct to the point statement about Doms being better Doms when they train first as subs, to a broad attack on a single person for behavior outside of the current topic.

That's the stuff I will delete.

Now, in here, I would *love* to delete rehashing of this same argument, as I find it really embarrassing and a drag to deal with in the week since the last big deletion happened. But I won't. It's on topic. It's a fair argument. There are no personal attacks.

But I do feel that its unfair to cast me or TG as censorship-happy villains. If I delete a post, it's because it will derail the topic at hand into a flame war-- and more importantly, because it doesn't belong. Not because I don't want the community to see differing points of view.

And on that point, I'm bangin' my head right beside ya.

I have never deleted a rational argument in this forum, and I wouldn't. If I did, I'd step down for being a bad, bad, bad Moderator.

Why would you think I would do something like that...?

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(the post in it's entirety can be found in Dom Training and the delete was done by Gary Wilcox)
The deleted post does not appear in the thread, obviously, in case a rubbernecker or two wants a peek at the carnage. <g>