We agree 

Aimmee I haven't ranted about BB for a while cos I can't make a proper judgement call about the HM's as I am not being shown all the aspects of their personality traits. .it's the gen chit chat that helps you get to know them properly.. 

I think I have a pretty good idea of the sort of person you are Olly!  We don't need a thread that sticks around gathering dust that shows a ranty Olly to know it! 

Yeah but what if we got new members who read back to get a feel for the current membership. .if they don't see my rants how will they know the real me

We're gonna agree from now on Olly  

Bloody attention seeker!  

*legs it*

Oh! That's what you meant by your rounded personality profile! 

deds Xochi . .I'll have you know mine is a zillion times bigger than that

crikey I am turning off. .I am not online at this time usually. .the Olympics is messing with my tv watching and puter turning off clock..

nighty night

Nite Olly 

Nanite Olly. Pax vobiscum. 

Just googled that. Learnt something new!

I see we have lost another thread in the last few moments - it wasnt locked - it isnt in troll tank - so assume deleted  

could offending/contencious posts not have been removed and the thread left - it was started by one of our regulars and was in context to the current BB series which has another two weeks to go 

a polite request 

if anyone strolls in and posts offending/contencious posts in the Twitter Thread please consider the few of us spending hours there for our small community and remove - please dont delete the thread - I for one dont always read all what I am posting at the time but do go back and catch up at a later time 

not wishing to offend but am a little concerned 

MrsH, I am not aware that any of the moderators has deleted the thread you have mentioned so at present I do not know what has happened. I know I'm the only moderator shown as online here at present and I have not touched that thread. Can you say what the thread was called ?

 Connor's family ask for support  [ copied from my history ] 

thanks EL 

Thanks MrsH. As you say that thread seems to have been deleted. I will ask the other moderators if they know anything about this and come back if any of us know what has happened.

Can I just say, well handled El Loro.. that's the way to do it. .helpful response followed by a promise to investigate.. .well done 

Mrs H hope you don't lose the Tweet thread. .I know only too well how it feels to lose something like that having got banned on C4 once cos some idiot clicked delete the thread instead of post and I'd LUtted all morning all by myself including a task too . .I did my nut in. .as you can imagine . 

.got bopped for it but didn't care. .reported myself so they could see just how furious I was.. 

In all seriousness tho, it's really disheartening..

ps to the rest of the Mods..  if you are not going to use the Troll tank anymore or just leave a thread locked and have changed the ways of modding as in deleting threads all of a sudden please let us know..

can I just say I did an experiment and you can still delete the whole topic

[ thread] - when you open your OP there is a delete topic option on the right - I found a really old useless thread I had started and had a couple of replies and it has gone 

Thanks El Loro 

Olly - that must have been before I joined the LUT there - how frustrating 

yep it was. .. .it was a daily one. .they deleted huge long threads in the past too.. before it had a dedicated forum when they were stickies on the main GBBF. .

Just looked at the top at the very far right ..[I never look there] and yes I can delete the topic.. .tho I wouldn't.. .so apologies for getting it wrong but like Ells I was pretty sure it had been stated as one of the recent  changes hence my stubbornness that it couldn't be done..

having said that the two threads I started this about were not deleted by the authors.. so the query still stood as to why this is happening now..

That looks as if there was a software change since the recent changes to be able to delete your own thread even if there were other posts.  If the originator of the Connor's family thread deleted the thread we moderators would not know about it.

I looked for the post I had read it on:

18 July 2012 20:35

 

 

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There has been a change for editing your opening post where you have created the topic. You now need to click on Edit this Topic which is on the right hand side after Following this Topic.

 

Having created a topic, you can delete that topic only if no replies have been made. You can edit your opening post but the topic itself cannot be deleted in the way it previously could.

 OK fair enough -thanks for your input EL 

Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:

 

 

 

Just looked at the top at the very far right ..[I never look there] and yes I can delete the topic.. .tho I wouldn't.. .so apologies for getting it wrong but like Ells I was pretty sure it had been stated as one of the recent  changes hence my stubbornness that it couldn't be done..

 

having said that the two threads I started this about were not deleted by the authors.. so the query still stood as to why this is happening now..

 

I looked for the post I had read it on:

 

 

18 July 2012 20:35

 

 

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There has been a change for editing your opening post where you have created the topic. You now need to click on Edit this Topic which is on the right hand side after Following this Topic.

 

Having created a topic, you can delete that topic only if no replies have been made. You can edit your opening post but the topic itself cannot be deleted in the way it previously could.

seems this is now out of date - maybe El Loro will update again 

All I can say here is that there has been no change - lots of threads have been transferred out of the open forum since the forum began.

MrsH, if any of the other moderators can shed light on that deleted thread, we'll let you know,

Thanks for pointing out the change in deleting threads and I will change my thread.

just logged on and can shed no light on the deleted thread

I think I have not made my point clear enough ..I know threads got invisibled . . and others got locked. . what didn't usually happen is lock a thread. . leave it for a day or so then invisible it.....   that was my point.. and one it wasn't worth making cos I ain't going get a satisfactory response to it anyway. . so forget I ever asked .

.but thanks fro clearing up the delete a thread or not thingy./ .I knew I wasn't going mad but as you say looks like it has changed back again..  

 Please find the thread I want to read about Ollys warts and all!

it aint pretty

I'll tie some bacon rind around them next time...

I'm assuming the thread was deleted (accidentally?) by whoever started it. Do we even know who that is? Maybe we could ask that person directly.

Please note that mods won't be deleting threads. They may get moved out of view, but we'll try not to do that if we can avoid it. The plan is to close them and move them to the troll tank.

Since the thread was deleted, I assume it was by the topic-starter.

For what it's worth, I have never been convinced of the merits of removing threads, I put up with it because I have no choice,lol.

i thought the troll tank was a  good idea, i don't see why that solution is being ignored.

i'm fine about the mods btw, never had any issues or  bad thoughts about them, as yet.

and much as i love you olly and agree in the most part with you, i do think you were a bit 'footstampy' in this thread, regarding mods  and  their replies.

Have just read this thread. If something was deleted by the author I'd just like to mention that I'm often replying in the Tweets section, I didn't see that post so I can assure Mrs H and others I didn't post or delete it.

Olly was it  the thread about Conors family asking for support that had been brought back to the main page, it was posted on opening night of BB and someone called Jane posted on it today, if so i think it was started by Erin so you could ask her if she removed

Lori I presume you are talking about the Missing thread Mrs H mentioned. .we know the authors didn't delete the two I was on about, they confirmed that

Jackson. .yes I may have got on my high horse in here but

1] The first Mod to enter didn't start at the top of the thread but answered a question halfway down first

2] When finally answering mine gave an abrupt non answer instead of an explanation about why they were locked for a bit then eventually removed..

Once we know what is going on, as the Mods are from the forum pool and are our representatives, we have every right to say if we feel they are acting out of order especially if they are new to modding  Also we have every right to know how decisions are reached don't we?  I thought the idea was to save OUR forum so surely we get a say in things especially as all the people are coming at things from different spectrum's and theirs may not be represented in the Mod pool...  No?

I know Lori hated me calling Fluffs out on this as she pointed out being pulled up in front of others is not pleasant. .  My last job consisted of this happening once a week to all of us working in a team, either as a team collectively  and also as individuals in front of the team. .usually cos we needed telling if we were becoming the weak links....  it was how we learnt.. or gave us a nod to pull our socks up..

Look at the way El Loro replied to Mrs H's query about another missing thread and look at Fluffs response to me. . says it all really

Sorry fluffs am sure you are a lovely person but I have always doubted your interpersonal skills [ one example is the way you corrected spelling and grammar unasked which is a major problem on a public forum as you have no idea if someone is dyslexic and can easily cause great upset ] and was wary when you stepped forward.. You do better in the techie help side I think rather than the mediation side that Mods require..  you like to keep up with all the changes and helping people out with those.. again IMO only..

I know people hate to see stuff like this written down even if some of them   share some of the views. .but surely it's better  to say how you feel, after all it is our forum isn't it and all I am/have done is be honest?

Gulp

that isn't my query it is/was Mrs H's..

oops your right sorry