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Paladin2000 · 07-18-2004, 01:22 PM

Some offending posts are locked instead of being deleted outright because it has the effect or warning members that similiar fate could happen to people who take little regards over the rules and regulations.

Sometimes a good topic gets locked up because someone posted something bad and spoiled the thread, as such, it is much more effective to lock to the thread rather than to delete it because people might ask "what happen to this topic...".

Once I was a moderator of a certain board and one of the "bad" topic got locked up. Unfortunately one of my fellow moderator decided to delete it instead. Ironically the offending member complained to the board owner and accused the moderators of abusing power and deleted his post. It took some explaining but the board owner finally accepted our (the moderators') explaination and resolve the whole situation.

Such situation is especially true to EzBoard because global members can easily hop from one board to the other where each board have its own respective rules. Some don't allow sigs, where as some allow minor use of profanity. You could have easily broken the rules on certain board without realising it.

[ 07-18-2004, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]

07-18-2004, 01:22 PM	#9
Paladin2000 Fzoul Chembryl Join Date: February 19, 2002 Location: Your guess is as good as mine. Age: 54 Posts: 1,728	Some offending posts are locked instead of being deleted outright because it has the effect or warning members that similiar fate could happen to people who take little regards over the rules and regulations. Sometimes a good topic gets locked up because someone posted something bad and spoiled the thread, as such, it is much more effective to lock to the thread rather than to delete it because people might ask "what happen to this topic...". Once I was a moderator of a certain board and one of the "bad" topic got locked up. Unfortunately one of my fellow moderator decided to delete it instead. Ironically the offending member complained to the board owner and accused the moderators of abusing power and deleted his post. It took some explaining but the board owner finally accepted our (the moderators') explaination and resolve the whole situation. Such situation is especially true to EzBoard because global members can easily hop from one board to the other where each board have its own respective rules. Some don't allow sigs, where as some allow minor use of profanity. You could have easily broken the rules on certain board without realising it. [ 07-18-2004, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ] __________________ (This is an invisible sig.)