Never run afoul of mods. I've seen content that they've deleted (much more rarely than reddit though). That's standard practice across the internet.
Are you saying that they ban you and then force you to delete the posts they don't like yourself and admit that you broke the rules prior to letting you post again? I've never heard of that anywhere but Twitter.
Imp once brought that up as an accusation against the mods here, whacky fellow that he is he definitely falls afoul of them on occasion, and when confronted in posts about it, the mods confirmed that yes, that was their policy here: They hid, not deleted, the posts, and would make the person delete them instead, if they wanted their tempban to be abridged or shortened.
Well, that's unfortunate. I get that owners/employees/mods can delete content and ban users on their site, but I don't agree with forcing people to be a participant in that punishment.
There was another site that I posted on years ago that had pretty strict politeness and no politics rules. Often, instead of deleting offending posts they would selectively censor content in them, often creating confusing and incomprehensible exchanges between the posters. They wouldn't tag messages that they edited, the only way you knew was that something you read earlier was now chopped up.
I stopped posting there because it became so pervasive and annoying to read gobbledygook. While a site has the right to remove their content and ban someone, you don't have the right to change their words. I lump "you delete it and apologize" rules in the same category.
Never run afoul of mods. I've seen content that they've deleted (much more rarely than reddit though). That's standard practice across the internet.
Are you saying that they ban you and then force you to delete the posts they don't like yourself and admit that you broke the rules prior to letting you post again? I've never heard of that anywhere but Twitter.
Imp once brought that up as an accusation against the mods here, whacky fellow that he is he definitely falls afoul of them on occasion, and when confronted in posts about it, the mods confirmed that yes, that was their policy here: They hid, not deleted, the posts, and would make the person delete them instead, if they wanted their tempban to be abridged or shortened.
Well, that's unfortunate. I get that owners/employees/mods can delete content and ban users on their site, but I don't agree with forcing people to be a participant in that punishment.
There was another site that I posted on years ago that had pretty strict politeness and no politics rules. Often, instead of deleting offending posts they would selectively censor content in them, often creating confusing and incomprehensible exchanges between the posters. They wouldn't tag messages that they edited, the only way you knew was that something you read earlier was now chopped up.
I stopped posting there because it became so pervasive and annoying to read gobbledygook. While a site has the right to remove their content and ban someone, you don't have the right to change their words. I lump "you delete it and apologize" rules in the same category.