Hi, recently one of my post has been erased from this forum. The thing was that I was trying to give a solution to someone for a power supply. Well one moderator did have something to add and said that my solution was not good for the OP realization. But actually he did not add a solution just said my post was not good. Well I replied to him unless you have a better solution for the OP's question then I will suggest you to "stop wasting bytes" by just judging other's posts without adding a better solution.
The thing is this, if a moderator is getting involved on the contents of other users' posts he is implaying that he is going to be fully responsable for all the posts. Imagine that in the case monetary damages of expensive equipment or physical injury happens as a direct reaccion or consequence of someone posts.
Moderators should not get involved unless the post is offensive, lewd or against the law to the general comunity not to him in particular which my wasn't anyways.
I even think is unlawful to control content because this forum is a semi- public place. Certainly he could make a comment about the inapropiateness of my post but he could not delete it or modify it. A moderator could certainly warn an user or calcel his account if the posts are offensive or illegal but not deleting posts on his likings. In case of a lawsuit one of the strategies of Plaintifs is finding People responsable for the damages and the more responsables the better it is. By the actions of this moderator one would expect a moderator to act all the time in case something bad could of have been prevented.
It is a very delicate thing if a moderator start controlling any content then users may find him responsable if something bad happens because of the forum's posts consequences.
The user agreement will not mean a thing if it is considered to be an unlawful or a double edged agreement in court.
I want to know what this community think about moderators deleting or modifying other's posts if they are not offensive nor illegal.
The thing is this, if a moderator is getting involved on the contents of other users' posts he is implaying that he is going to be fully responsable for all the posts. Imagine that in the case monetary damages of expensive equipment or physical injury happens as a direct reaccion or consequence of someone posts.
Moderators should not get involved unless the post is offensive, lewd or against the law to the general comunity not to him in particular which my wasn't anyways.
I even think is unlawful to control content because this forum is a semi- public place. Certainly he could make a comment about the inapropiateness of my post but he could not delete it or modify it. A moderator could certainly warn an user or calcel his account if the posts are offensive or illegal but not deleting posts on his likings. In case of a lawsuit one of the strategies of Plaintifs is finding People responsable for the damages and the more responsables the better it is. By the actions of this moderator one would expect a moderator to act all the time in case something bad could of have been prevented.
It is a very delicate thing if a moderator start controlling any content then users may find him responsable if something bad happens because of the forum's posts consequences.
The user agreement will not mean a thing if it is considered to be an unlawful or a double edged agreement in court.
I want to know what this community think about moderators deleting or modifying other's posts if they are not offensive nor illegal.
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