[wp-forums] Deleting Accounts

[Dr. Mike Wendell]

On 4/27/07, Mark R <tamba2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've deleted posts in the .org forums before. But only when it was a very
> good reason from the person themself and when doing so would not ruin a
> thread. Several IIRC were things like real name being used, company name
> mentioned, they realised their post wasn't quite how they would like it to
> be the next day - that sort of thing. It didn't happen a lot at all.

For reference, I just deleted about 35 this morning.  20 from a
spammer (I guess the idiot's been blocked now) and 15 from a thread
where the poster got offended if they were hosted here at wp.com or
elsewhere and refused to answer the question.

There are times when I'll edit a post instead of delete.  It's usually
because we've had a detail description of a plugin that's not
available to wp.com users.  I do that so not to confuse folks.  That
happens about once a week.  I mark the reason when I do it.

> Regarding the blank in the .org, when the switch from minibb to bbpress
> happened there could have been damage then. Certainly many threads lost
> their first post which is why some old threads will look very weird. The
> username problem could also be associated with that.

Was wondering about that.  Had found a thread once where hte first
five or so posts we're not labeled.  Was rather strange.  Thank you
for the response.

Regards,
-drmike

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