One thing that is really, really, really bothering me about this forum currently (one of the many - I don't think is a forum I will frequent for much longer, if I'm honest!) is the way the mods deal with deleted posts/spliced threads.
Spliced threads are horrible - joining two threads together even worse. Suddenly you have a situation where you just don't understand anything of what is going on in the thread. Who is replying to who? Where is the original comment that sparked someone else's answer? Just nasty to follow, especially when you don't even realise that two threads have been joined until you are three pages in (Sometimes I am not on the forum for days at a time, and then have problems catching up with what has been going on).
My second point is about the deleted posts. On every other forum I frequent, if a post is deleted, the mod will leave a comment in red where the original post was, stating 'Post Deleted' and giving a reason why. You then know whether it was a flamey comment, or whether someone had gone against Board Rules etc and made it easier. In threads currently, there are people making comments about a post that doesn't even exist anymore.
Could a mod take these ideas on board and maybe try to come up with a better solution?
Spliced threads are horrible - joining two threads together even worse. Suddenly you have a situation where you just don't understand anything of what is going on in the thread. Who is replying to who? Where is the original comment that sparked someone else's answer? Just nasty to follow, especially when you don't even realise that two threads have been joined until you are three pages in (Sometimes I am not on the forum for days at a time, and then have problems catching up with what has been going on).
My second point is about the deleted posts. On every other forum I frequent, if a post is deleted, the mod will leave a comment in red where the original post was, stating 'Post Deleted' and giving a reason why. You then know whether it was a flamey comment, or whether someone had gone against Board Rules etc and made it easier. In threads currently, there are people making comments about a post that doesn't even exist anymore.
Could a mod take these ideas on board and maybe try to come up with a better solution?