[Free]

I also think it's a good initiative, although I wouldn't put everything in "general bridge discussion". Sometimes it belongs in sayc/2/1, sometimes it can be an interesting bridge hand. This can be intuitive, so won't waste a lot of time.

[inquiry]

A thread in General Bridge was edited to remove name of a bbo player used in a negative light (TOS violation) and the entire thread was moved to BBO software suggestion forum. One subsequent post in that thread by the OP was deleted as editing out the player name there left it nonsensical.

[inquiry]

Duplicate thread dealing with acbl and laws had one deleted, and the other thread moved from general bridge thingee to laws and ruling forum.

[inquiry]

An unintentional duplicate post with no replies was deleted from the GIB forum. The second version of this post did have replies and was not deleted. Policy will be to delete these in the future without comment in this thread, and if both post have replies, move the replies from the one to be deleted to the other duplicate post prior to deletion.

[inquiry]

New member made two spam post today. The post have been deleted, the spammer has been banned. Thanks to everyone reporting these spam thingees...

[inquiry]

I'm back, bet you didn't even know I was gone, thanks to the excellent job done by other moderators. I was away since Oct 3 (road trip through several states including and surrounding yellowstone national park).

Anyway, as far as I can tell, while I was gone, the following threads have been modified or changed.

The title of one thread was changed from the 2001 world championships to the correct 2011.

One post was moved from Advanced/Expert to general bridge forum

The thread "annoying posts: why do they happen?" was moved from somewhere to the water cooler forum. In addition, one extremely annoying reply by hrothgar in that thread by was deleted by an administrator (I agree with the choice). A possible side effect (based solely on timing) is it seems that hrothgar may have resigned from these forums because of this deletion of his annoying post in that thread. If so, that is a shame, but if I to administer that thread, I would have probably not only have deleted the reply someone else did, but I would have edited at least one other post in that thread which looks like it was not edited.

There may have been some other tweeks while I was gone, but these are the ones I know about.

[Free]

Ofcourse we noticed that you were away Ben, too much trash in A/E...

[inquiry]

One thread allegedly showing impolite chat from a bbo member was deleted. Thanks to everyone reporting that one. In addition, a few threads were moved out of the adv/exp forum, a few more probably should be moved.

[inquiry]

Five post were deleted from the "one last plea for downvoting" thread. It was the start of a flame war posted by one member, whose FYP snide remark was reported to the moderators by a few members. The object of the flame war made a reasonable reply (which was deleted as well, because of subsequent post) and then three others jumped in to attack the original FYP flame war starter.

[Antrax]

Could you elaborate on how that comment was inflammatory? Is there some history between those two posters or something?

[Bbradley62]

Antrax, on 2011-November-01, 10:37, said:

Could you elaborate on how that comment was inflammatory? Is there some history between those two posters or something?

Yes, there is; Ben is trying to prevent a replay.

[Antrax]

Thanks. It certainly felt like I was missing something.

[JLOGIC]

looks like I missed some fun times

[aguahombre]

Maybe Ben could undelete them long enough for us to enjoy

[Phil]

aguahombre, on 2011-November-01, 21:16, said:

Maybe Ben could undelete them long enough for us to enjoy

I have a book I'm saving. PM me for details.

[inquiry]

thread with info to identify a player a new poster was claiming was cheating was edited to remove information that might help identify who was accused. The thread was moved to suggestion for software.

[wyman]

inquiry, on 2011-November-02, 18:05, said:

thread with info to identify a player a new poster was claiming was cheating was edited to remove information that might help identify who was accused. The thread was moved to suggestion for software.

the OP is quoted later in that thread, incidentally

[inquiry]

wyman, on 2011-November-02, 23:01, said:

the OP is quoted later in that thread, incidentally

thanks.. turns out it wasn't cheating so no harm, but i will go edit it...

[Gerardo]

Moved a misplaced post from the Paterno thread to the "best compliment at table" thread, on request from the own post.

Deleted two subsequent post referring to the post which is now no longer there, as they served no purpose.

1) Quoted misplaced post, asked why Paterno would care
2) "I misplaced the post"

[aguahombre]

Gerardo, on 2011-November-13, 05:29, said:

Moved a misplaced post from the Paterno thread to the "best compliment at table" thread, on request from the own post.

Deleted two subsequent post referring to the post which is now no longer there, as they served no purpose.

1) Quoted misplaced post, asked why Paterno would care
2) "I misplaced the post"

Thank you. We both assumed you would fix.