Notifications on deleted posts

[murdoxix]

I would like to receive a notification (and its reason) when someone deletes one of my posts.

[JDC]

Why, so that you can question the moderators of the forum?

[Omar Aly]

Why, so that you can question the moderators of the forum?

Yes, we have the full right to know the reason of removal of topics and posts.

[Pandalink]

Yes, we have the full right to know the reason of removal of topics and posts.

This is right.
If I remove someone's post in the groups section, they should know about it. Otherwise, what's the point?

[murdoxix]

Why, so that you can question the moderators of the forum?

No, don't think like that about me... I want to know if someone deletes my post and its reason so I can know I made a mistake, what mistake and I don't it again.

[~Legend~]

Sounds like a good idea.

Many features on these forums over the years havebecome more difficult to get to grips with, rather than the other way round. In a number of ways efficiency and general presentation has gone downhill and hopefully a fix isn't to far away.
As it is, even doing things like locking a topic can make it seem to disappear; the topic gets moved all the way to the back of the forum board along with all the other locked topics, regardless of date, keeping the locked discussions away from the open ones despite perhaps containing relevant news or conveying an important timely message. You can only sticky so many things and for so many reasons.

If something you put on the forum suddenly vanishes without any trace, I think it's normal to be concerned.
Argonath Administration and its semi-official support groups (like forum moderators, certain website editors/webmasters etc.) are supposed to be highly professional and if they are going to take action on something or someone, the involved people have the right to communicate, otherwise we might as well employ bots.

If a poster sees that their topic has gone, they may not realise that it was removed for a particular reason. They are very likely just to post it again and probably, unfairly, receive some warning from an anti-social mod. :P
Genuine mistakes can happen as well - on both sides.

[Radagast]

If your post disappears, feel free to ask one of the webmasters - we are here to help. You will know when you've done something wrong as a warning will pop up.

[murdoxix]

If your post disappears, feel free to ask one of the webmasters - we are here to help. You will know when you've done something wrong as a warning will pop up.

The thing is that, sometimes, we don't even note that one of our posts has been deleted :/.

[SugarD]

The thing is that, sometimes, we don't even note that one of our posts has been deleted :/.

Sadly SMF doesn't give you notification of post-based moderation actions, even if you are watching the topic. Only topic-based actions are reported themselves, so there isn't much we can do about this.

[Pandalink]

Sadly SMF doesn't give you notification of post-based moderation actions, even if you are watching the topic. Only topic-based actions are reported themselves, so there isn't much we can do about this.

If I delete a post or something, I'll generally PM the person for this reason. Otherwise, they might not even know their post is gone.

[AK47]

If I delete a post or something, I'll generally PM the person for this reason. Otherwise, they might not even know their post is gone.

It should me more people like you sir.

[SugarD]

If I delete a post or something, I'll generally PM the person for this reason. Otherwise, they might not even know their post is gone.

Well yes, it is possible to do that manually. I'm just referring to the automated notification system built into SMF.

[JDC]

If I delete a post or something, I'll generally PM the person for this reason. Otherwise, they might not even know their post is gone.

When I removed posts, it was almost always because of provocative content (if otherwise, I PMed the person) and left a message on the topic afterward stating why the amount of posts were cleared.

The problem is that in many cases, even with prior warnings not to provoke, people still go ahead and post attacks against others, then cry foul against moderators when their posts are removed. They breach forum rules then feel entitled to some kind of respect afterward, just like spoiled kids.

[murdoxix]

Sadly SMF doesn't give you notification of post-based moderation actions, even if you are watching the topic. Only topic-based actions are reported themselves, so there isn't much we can do about this.

Probably exists a mod that it adds this feature.

[SugarD]

Probably exists a mod that it adds this feature.

I haven't seen one, but it could probably be made fairly easily.