# Do other message boards you post on delete posts and/or allow you to question moderation?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 28, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-message-boards-you-post-on-delete-posts-and-or-allow-you-to-question-moderation/947510 "2021-07-28T08:40:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-message-boards-you-post-on-delete-posts-and-or-allow-you-to-question-moderation/947510/1 "2021-07-28T08:40:12Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [How should the Pit be changed, if at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859/444):

puzzlegal and I are discussing other message boards and whether they delete posts and allow you to question moderation.

puzzlegal says that most message boards she has posted on deletes posts and doesn’t allow for questioning of moderation. My experience is the opposite.

> [@How should the Pit be changed, if at all?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-pit-be-changed-if-at-all/946859/444):
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> Having participated in several other message boards, by far the most common way of handling issues like trolling or subtle racism is that the mods just delete the offensive posts. And if a poster racks up too many, the poster is deleted. But you don’t SEE that XYZ sometimes drops racial slurs because those posts quietly go away.
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> And on most boards, commenting on moderation is also actionable.

Two public polls. One for deleting posts. One for questioning moderation.

_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-message-boards-you-post-on-delete-posts-and-or-allow-you-to-question-moderation/947510/1))_

_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-message-boards-you-post-on-delete-posts-and-or-allow-you-to-question-moderation/947510/1))_

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