Regarding the PJAMA mess

[Maxpphire]

i think the same applies to you deleting the posts, kat: you don't like it, move on. i don't think it's the appropriate way to deal with the subject.
i don't think erasing messages, even hostile ones, will remedy the situation, especially if it's after everybody's read them. even proactively i think i have the right to know who and what is said, offensive or not. and i also think it is our right to respond or not to these type of messages, too.
i don't think an "ignorance is bliss" attitude is going to fix things, especially as i think we are presently entrenched in something deeper than a PJAMA/lu9 crisis and squabbling, and it's not going to be fixed by deleting members' posts.
yes, as a moderator and part of the forum staff you are supposed to contain/ suppress/ ban negative vibes/ whatever creates them on the forum, but my question is: is it through deleting, locking and banning that we enter a period of appeasement or happiness? no, sadly i don't think so.
i've said this before but the solution is more on the members themselves. it's not so much the posts that bother me, it's who's posting's attitude. and deleting posts/locking does not seem to me like the rightful sanction.
discuss.

i think deleting posts will only make anyone whose posts were deleted madder, unless they were doing anything on purpose or know theyre wrong.

The only reason why I think it is a good idea to delete the hostile posts because things never change in this shithole. I'm know we've told you many of times before to grow up and be nice to eachother and that only last for about a month at the very most before is dissolves back into everyone having a 10 foot poll up their ass again.

Now Chris, you say "Oh if you don't like people being so hostile then follow your own advice and don't pay attention to it" but you forget, I'm a moderator. Caring about what people post happens to be apart of my job, just like keeping the peace around here is also apart of my job. I am all for free speech and people saying what they have to say but if people really feel the need to bitch at eachother for being ironic all the time or being unfunny or some idiotic bullshit like that and cause a huge shitstorm then they can take it to the PM system or an IM service of some sort and keep it off the fourms because thats literally the last thing we need breaking out all over the place.

I'm pretty sure that being respectful is one of the rules, even though the rules generally don't have to be followed in here (Except rule 4) you are expected to some degree to use your common sense in here. In fact using your common sense shouldn't even have to be said. It isn't like I'm asking everyone to be friends with eachother. Just be civil enough to post in the same forum or maybe even the same topic and not let it dissolve into a huge shitstorm.

If someone gets pissed over having their post deleted then they need to take a break from here because we do not delete posts very often. If someone's post gets deleted then that means they obviously posted something wrong as common sense would tell you.