Hedir Review : Should we remove some comments on request?

anthony

Hi all,

In some of cases some users are asking to remove some of the comments should we do it (especially when he/she has corrected the error)? IMO we should delete it as we want to help webmasters and putting anything in public which may hurt their site in long run should be avoided. All do some mistakes but once corrected on community's advice should get some preferences. Our main goal is to help people find the good resources and if someone is ready to rectify the errors we should help them there.

As I always say, let the community alone decide. Looking forward for your viewpoint.

CTPhil · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

Sounds like revisionist history to me. I don't see how viewing a process of review, critique and correction can hurt a site.

Melkor · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject:

No.

I've been a moderator for forums before, and.. nope, deleting history and make discussions un-happen is a bad, bad practice.

Archiving discussions after a site has been accepted and directing comments to a new thread in the related forum, sure, that's okay. But no deletions, they're against my religion.

Señor COOL · Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

No, unless it's something malicious or offensive. As CTPhil said, it sounds like revisionist history.

Besides, if there's an error that a webmaster made and it was fixed, it shows site improvement.

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15242 Hedir Points

Yes I also agree there, there is nothing wrong in saying that once I did a mistake and then I improved.

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

A comment should only be editted or removed if it is

a security risk for the submitted site
in an abusive manner(personal attacks)
repeated posts
or ofcourse just plain spam

LeenaN · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 4 370 Hedir Points

Postings a persons full name and location is farely big security risk

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

LeenaN: If the personal information isn't acceptable by the person it was directed to then I wouldn't have any problem deleting that portion of the post. Being that it was in the form of full name and location.

I do have one exception to this rule of posting personal information.
If the site is noted as a scam site and it could be confirmed that it was then I would leave the postings.

Example: http://www.hedir.com/groupthink/about11339-1.html

We received a very gracious note for having it here.
http://www.hedir.com/groupthink/about14008.html

I also like to keep a good thumb on how whois info is used in posts.

swayrs · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

If this is not spam, than I wonder what it is called....

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

swayrs: I have no control over this part of the Hedir forums.
I would delete the spam if I had the ability.

swayrs · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:35 am Post subject:

Yep, I got it, I've sent PM to baggeroli. sorry about bugging with this, but spam turns me crazy.

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

I have been corrected. I forgot about an option I had to delete the junk posts by guests in any forum.
Thanks swayrs. You gave me more work Smile

lol

masteri5 · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 283 10546 Hedir Points

Forgive me, there for a moment I thought I had clicked on the Disney channel.
I guess garbage like that is the risk you take when you are in the public domain...looks like somebody needs to get a life.

Olga Bear · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Why, i am asking why all this happens

Jackie · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 357 23610 Hedir Points

Hey Olga, welcome to the Hedir community. May i know what actually happen?