Mods with too much power

I understand that NS is liable and accountable for various reasons, but i'm not strictly talking about the DMT thread (which i enjoyed not for the dumb idiotic ideas about the drug, but other intelligent folk who have used it and their thoughts and opinions that agree with me...i enjoy knowing more people are out there that have the same thought processes as i do).  I'm not going to go through mythreads and find other threads that have been deleted, but i can guarentee that more often than not i am left wondering why it was deleted since the content was not at all againt NS policy. 

And i definitely agree with you, more kids these days need understand a search engine is about 100X better than NS, except when it comes to social questions and commentaries that require dialogue and discussion amongst groups of individuals growing up in the same era.  That being said, it leads me back to my same argument, if you are going to delete one thread for being repetative, why not get rid of all of them?  I feel it should be none or every single thread that has "searchbar" as a response.

I'm gonna laugh if this thread gets deleted.

pfhahaha

In many cases there is no distinct rule-book. Especially when it comes to NSG, thats the really tough one..just because its non-ski related doesn't mean it is wrong, and just because someone disagrees with it doesn't mean it is inappropriate - so for the most part, NSG is quite unmoderated except in the case of threads where they push the envelope of what is acceptable. In those cases, most of the time they will be deleted if there is any doubt.

At the end of the day threads like those about DMT can't stay because (as nomen said in another post of his) they can potentially expose NS to accountability for hosting the information here. People giving advice to others on the topic could potentially cause harm, so we obviously can't have that.

As for things like Cakefarts - it is gone and the OP is banned. It isn't realistic for every thread to be seen in a matter of minutes, which is why it is helpful when members send mods a pm letting them know about a potentially badass thread that should be deleted.

I like to think the mods do a fairly good job of keeping things clean here, without getting on this 'power trip' that you talk of. It keeps the quality of information up, and therefore maximises the value of the site for the members - if you want to read rubbish, then 4chan is readily accessible, and we just don't want to end up like that!

i would say most thread deletions make perfect sense and have a reason

I just watched cakefarts.

That user should receive a significant karma boost? Is he banned forever or a temp Ban?

Temp

I understand cakefarts is harmless when compared to other things, but it clearly crosses the line.

i havnt seen any of the DMT threads

just watched cakefarts

nice icon^^^^

well yeah it shows several closeups of a girl without pants on, i mean that's generally not accepted on ns

Silence was right on the money. We try to give you guys a lot of freedom in the forums, but there are certain things that cross the line. Threads like the DMT ones are quite dangerous, just because some people may post legitimately useful information, there is just as much misinformation that can get people in trouble.

You have to remember that our users are from all over the world and all ages from 13 to 30. Just because you think something if OK, doesn't mean it is fully acceptable in our forums.

Yes we have the final say, but our mod team is picked from people who are fair and want to give you the best site possible, not people who are power hungry with trigger happy delete fingers.

the mods are great and do their job well and their main goal, as we've seen with questionable things like the laugh you lose thread, is to let us have fun without it being exceedingly illegal or innapropriate

Like i said before, i used the DMT thread as an example.  There have been times where a perfectly acceptable thread that does not contain (in my opinion) an harmful material, yet next time i try and view it , it's gone.  Does that mean one person posting causes an entire thread to be shut down?  Why not just delete the post?  I see no harm in deleting posts if it's worth keeping an interesting thread up.

i doubt the mods ever delete threads because of just one or two bad posts. there are usually other reasons like reposts or maybe the thread creator asked to have it deleted im guessing

We do just delete posts. I delete a lot more posts than threads. You say it doesn't contain any harmful material in your opinion, but your opinion is not what matters, the mod who happens to be reading it decides if it should stay or go. We actually let a lot of stuff stay in comparison to most forums. There's a lot of garbage in NSG, and it takes a lot of management to keep it from going completely beyond the pale. So don't complain so much. If you have a particular preference as to what kinds of things should be allowed to stay on a web forum without being deleted, you're free to start your own.

I'd say that overall non-ski is left pretty much as is unless a thread has just hit an endless wall of retarded-ness.

What about all the Tanner and Wiley injury threads? I found it odd that they were all taken down and that I had to go to Freeskier to get the scoop. Normally the forums are the first place I look for up to date information, and if they are deleted it's because there is an upcoming article on the incident. Instead the threads were yanked and there was a okay interview with Wiley long after the news was old.

The original was pulled until factual information was verified and then it was reinstated immediately as the information was verified and we knew that rumors weren't being spread.

The offshoot threads were deleted because there was no reason to have 43875834368547 threads on the same topic at one time.

That was actually due to the people involved requesting that we delete the threads.