MISSING THREAD?, Chanh55's Post-Swap Starter Problem Options

[Chanh55]

It, by all means, is a policy problem. There were contributions from several members and much more detailed instructions than what was posted in the new thread.

Deleting threads should be a last resort.

again, you seem to be dissmising the point that chan ASKED for the post to be deleted.
whoever contributed whatever at that point became irrelevent, bacause the OP asked for his thread to be deleted.
how are we wrong for doing what the OP asked us to do?

Manny:

I think the policy should be to say "no" when an OP asks that a thread be deleted. Locked, yes. Deleted, no - particularly where there is worthy information included. I was not saying that the policy was followed incorrectly. I was giving my opinion that the policy of acquiescing to OP requests to delete threads should be changed.

I totally agree.. It wasn't fair to the people that contributed to answering my question. I think topics like these should be reviewed before deleting.

[presure2]

ahh..
i see your point now, Jay, and id have to agree, as long as the post is celica related, and constructive.
i think we'd all agree on those terms.
its people like you that will continue to make this site better jay.
all of you for that matter.
this type of disscussion is what will continue to make this better and better, and i think we all should try and communicate things in this manner.
even tho it is obvious that some of you are upset about it, we've all been mature enough to voice our opinions without having to resort to childish bickering ect...and thats whats important.
i think we can all work together as a "team" to make this place better and better in the future, and i hope all of you will continue to voice your opinions.
if any of you guys have any problems, or whatever, feel free to hit me, or any one of the mods for that matter up, thats what we're here for.

[jgreening]

Sounds good. Now, see what Coomer can do about the 3-letter word searching.

[lagos]

i think the rule should be...

NOTHING gets deleted, UNLESS:

1. something is just totally rude and out of place. spam, porn, etc.
2. somone is trying to sell a part in the buying and selling section, and the rest of the posters ruin the thread buy doing into some deep discusion about the part being sold... like consxy's curren front end thread. stuff like that should be cleaned up.
3. if its a dubble post, or someone made a posting mistake.

all the other stuff, like a normal thread going off the original topic, or getting out of hand should be just closed, but not totally deleted. i know im not the only one, who hates to find out that something i spent time posting is now gone.

[Coomer]

I agree that in most cases, simply locking a thread is a better solution than deleting. Thank you for the input on this everyone...management will take this into consideration when moderating in the future.