I am choosing to say publicly a few things, and I will say a few others in private. I was just looking today about returning, and I'm sad to see that this community still seems to be at odds, and unable to truly work together as a unified force.
That said, my personal public opinion is that while not all dirty laundry needs aired, I wish there wasn't so much deleting. I think the record is capable of standing for itself, and I see no issue with leaving dissenting or disagreeing bgg points of view up. Conversations that should be private can and should of course be taken there as quickly as possible, but when I see a thread with 330+ deletions, that raises more questions than I think is helpful.
Just my two cents. As always, I believe that everyone here supports the mission and wants what is best
If we keep that in mind, many things can be overcome.
Dear Noxpost,
Thank you for your post. From my perspective, after putting in a massive amount of work in the blog and a continuous amount of programming in the coin and its related systems, I feel that these last (few recent posts) are mischaracterizing the deleted post sitation by default into censorship without a full analysis.
Since I know you are an MVP here, I feel this would be a good opportunity to analyze the situation from beginning to end and then help draw a summary of this for us, and then you can post the actual conclusion as a third party.
Will you please do me a favor, since you have cited the 330 deleted posts as a huge problem (pointing to blog censorship) could you e-mail me, and what we will do is go through the procedure of summarizing each of the deleted posts and content into its characterized category and content, and then lets make a call together on the feeling if this content should have been deleted or not.
Then Ill let you make a public summary of what we find together, and a recommendation of what we should do to our policy going forward.
Rob@biblepay.orgPS: Regarding the statistic itself, when my posts are deleted by a moderator they count as deleted also. And they get deleted quite a bit when they contain keywords.
PS2: Regarding infighting, yes of course its sad a new argument exists this week, but why is it happening? But if we had 10,000 members like we should, one persons argument should not give you the conclusion that we are 'at odds with each other and infighting'. But I do think the community should do more to root out infighting (IE be a force for God that does not condone it at all - and we should all hate the essence of discord/malencholy). And, yes, all of us should have the common courtesy to talk in private. Ill delete the infighting post because its not professional.