You know what I am getting from this? Instead of being thankful and being concise and to the point - we should make our thank you posts full of bullshit and fluffy spam so that they don't get deleted....
in fact, some of the posts deleted are not even simple "thank you" posts - some are longer but simply start off with "thank you"
Collectibles is a bit different than the rest of the forums when it comes to someone saying thanks - now if it was someone who did not participate in the raffle - maybe that would be terms for deletion. But what was done here was stupidity - I see it simply as a means to ensure some lazy mod gets paid. And by lazy - I do not necessarily mean they do nothing but that that what they are doing is being done lazily - without actually understanding what is being done - simple "hey they said thank you - delete that fucking spam!" - is maybe suitable elsewhere on the forums but it is not that cut/dry here in collectibles.
And if they do not understand that - then they should not be moderating this area of the forums. Let them get paid for deleting spam elsewhere.
If you want the Collectibles board to have a special status, petition the administration for said status. Until such status is granted or at least til the administration instructs me to handle these cases differently, I'll treat it as any other board.
special status? no. I just want moderators that are not ignorant.