First of all, I want to highlight that I really value the work done by all the moderators of this forum. Moderating a community of this size is not easy. I have been a moderator on several forums, some quite large, and I know that this is not an easy task. What I suggest is that the way service topics are read be reflected in the moderation approach, in relation to posts by the OP or person responsible for the service. This reflection comes after an event that surprised me.
A few hours ago, I received 3 messages saying that my posts were deleted in the TalkImg thread. As you can imagine, I was a bit panicked just by seeing the title of the notification emails. What happened was a moderator (it doesn't matter who it was - this is a reflection, not an accusation) decided to group together a set of posts that I had made in 2023.
The task itself is not bad, but it can harm the work on the topic structure, the sequence of events or something like that. After a more careful analysis, this is what ended up happening.
It was decided to combine 4 posts into one, which follow in chronological order:
https://beta.ninjastic.space/post/63124932https://beta.ninjastic.space/post/63126527https://beta.ninjastic.space/post/63154010https://beta.ninjastic.space/post/63159303A post was a response to a user. Another post was dedicated to the month's statistics. Two posts referred to the announcement of maintenance periods.
As will be logical, an OP of a service topic cannot wait for someone to make a post before he can make posts about service updates. I can't help but respond to a post because I think I'll make a post hours later. I can't help but give information about the service, just because no one else has written a post since the last one.
Furthermore, it is not appropriate to edit posts, because a lot of the information is relevant and serves to inform other users. Some of them receive notifications and it is useful to make new posts, with relevant topics.
The most unpleasant thing, which led me to open this topic, was the fact that one of the deleted posts (merged with another) was the statistics post, which will impact the link in the official topic. (This link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5450546.msg63126527#msg63126527 - regarding statistics [Oct'23].) Link that is not only in the official OP, but can also be in some translation topics.
In addition to having to change the link in the OP, these statistics will be mixed in with other posts that have nothing to do with the subject, nor with the organization of the topic.
Therefore, I suggest special care when dealing with topics (ANN) related to services. Because a change may require additional extra work without any need. An OP cannot depend on third party posts to make new posts, and be afraid that later these posts will all be together, when in this case it makes no sense at all. Of course, the idea of this post is just to draw attention to the topic or make it move up the page (which was not the case), it makes sense to bring all these posts together.
This is a reflection, once again I emphasize that this is not to accuse the work of the moderators. Just to reflect and improve!