PaulSage said:
Sorry if I'm a little late on this, but I don't understand why deleting those threads in my forum was such a problem. I was under the impression that it was my right to do so based on the description of the member forums:
PaulSage said:
Rich, if the threads that were in my forum were/are really that valuable to you or the site, I would restore them and move them to other forums where applicable. However, I cannot do that since my moderating abilities for the forum I purchased have been removed.
Perhaps I broke some rule or agreement for the Member Forums that I am not aware of, but if that's the case I would like it pointed out to me. Also, if I am going to be denied the service that I paid for, I do expect a pro-rated refund for the forum as I requested in an email to which I did not receive a reply. Thanks.
Let's look at the facts of the matter here, Paul.
The first issue we had to face was the fact that you conspired with some other members to use your personal forum as a form of vendetta towards the person who was at that time the moderator of the Bearded Dragon discussion forum. What you and others intended to do was to try to undermine my efforts to get the discussion forums more active by attempting to use your personal forum as an alternate bearded dragon forum in order to spite the moderator's efforts I had asked him to try to accomplish there. Now I do expect threads to be within those personal forums that would discuss topics that would certainly be also appropriate within other discussion forums here, and that would have been perfectly OK. However, what you and others engaged in was NOT of that nature at all and was purposely and maliciously done in spite, in my opinion. In our discussions via private messages, you admitted to this fact. In my opinion, this was a juvenile and spitefull thing to do, and I told you so in no uncertain terms. My opinion on that is unchanged.
During the course of the pms between us, you got agitated and told me plainly and distinctly that you intended to never come back to this site again. At which time, since I trusted you were sincere in that statement, I removed you as the moderator of the Dog discussion forum. Sorry, but if you were the moderator of another discussion forum, I just do not recall, but if you were, that moderatorship would have been removed as well. This seemed to me to be a reasonable step to take. I don't need any absentee moderators here, quite frankly.
The next thing in the sequence of events was when you vindictively (in my opinion) deleted ALL of the threads within your own personal forum. Upon noticing your action, I then removed you as the moderator of that forum, as you had clearly and unambiguously abused that privilege there.
Quite frankly, you obviously and purposely abused the use of your personal forum in two separate instances, listed above. A fact which you seem unable or unwilling to understand. The moderator rights within the personal forums are to allow the person who runs it to take responsibility for spam or any other garbage of that sort that may take place there. Any reported posts made in a forum of that nature has that notice go to the moderator and not to me. This, I felt, was fair, in that the moderator could make his or her own decision about what posts of that nature would constitute abuse or inappropriateness and they could deal with it on their own instead of my having to deal with it. In effect, I allow the moderators to be the cleanup crew within that forum to help take the garbage out. This was certainly not intended to be treated as a carte blanche for someone to just take it upon themselves to delete ALL threads in a forum while in a tiff over something.
Under the circumstances, you paid for a personal forum, and you got it, whether you choose to use it or not. The moderator powers were just a perk I offered and are not at all necessary for you do use your personal forum as it is intended. Now, if you find something that is inappropriate within your own forum, you simply have to report it and I will deal with it as I deem appropriate. All you have had removed is your ability to inflict further abuse within that forum.
