Ok, it’s been a few minutes since I put my membership on the line, time to risk wrath again.
There is a thread that is evidently hidden from the eyes of the great unwashed (you and me), and y’all know that hiding somethiong makes it more seductive (Cecil’s rule # 487). So here we are seething.
It first came out in the Religion Poll - a great poll started by Czarcasm that is still open.
First Posted By Guinastasia
Trying to access this thread, you get a (politely) locked door.
OK. Is it private? Should we MYOB? Inappropriate? perhaps ‘not ask?’ Politically Incorrect? (Then maybe we should know the parameters?) Or is it just “Inside Information” that DoperMods, The Big “C” and God herself only should access???
This is one of those things that we neurotic “Seekers of Truth and Enemies of Ignorance” just can’t ignore.
Jeez, at LEAST tell us to forget it, if it will never be revealed! This silence makes us think of new terrorist conspiracies!
There is at least one forum (and possibly others) that is(are) accessible only to the mods and admins, where they move objectionable threads, rather than deleting them outright.
To quell the rampant speculation and fevered imaginings that always seem to surface when this question comes up, I will answer.
You know those Make Money Fast and Eternal Life Ring spam posts we sometimes get? We move that sort of thing into the mod forum. We try to move troll posts and threads into that forum, too, if we can do it without ruining continuity. We also document stuff like poster name changes, warnings, and people we’ve banned, along with their IP addresses. A typical entry in this forum would be “Warned {poster} about {offense} in this thread (with a link provided).” It’s usually a very boring forum. The GOOD stuff is in the modmail.
Not that we don’t trust you Lynn, what with the wrath an’ all, but that just seems a little too convenient for my likings. Yup, I’m gonna stick with the old conspiracy theories myself.
::puts on tinfoil hat::
Wait a minute, you didn’t even tell us what was in that thread. It must be the Illumin-
As an ex-mod on a few other boards, I can say that we used to keep questionable posts/threads/folders hidden rather than deleted for documentation and reference purposes, and also if we changed our minds and decided to allow the p/t/f. Easier to unhide it than make the person start from scratch.
