It is the forum admins and moderators job to maintain this forum and ensure that it through our continued growth stays true to the values that made this place was it is today.
Since the begining we have experienced a tremendious growth, where we now have over 550 active posters and over 170 members.
The forum has grown from a few sections to now span over topics from science, a number of games sections and alot of other topics.
To ensure that we keep an enviroment where people still feel home right away and to keep the very good ambience we have now, we the admins and mods need to sometmes to delete posts or threads.
There can be multiple reasons for deletion or locking. A post can be inflamatory, insulting, spam, posted before or just not within the values that are GCHQ.
We allways, as our admins on our servers, try to make these kind of descions based on longtime membership of GCHQ and a proven record of admin skills and off course our rules.
Since the begining deletion of posts have been a part of the day to day use of the forum. Usually without futher comments.
Over the last couple of months there has been a small but steady rise in the number of locked threads.
Futhermore we have experienced that a growing number of people take these actions like a grave personal insult - with several online posts about why their post have been deleted.
Now in the future if one of your post get deleted, please consider this:
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1. It may have been judged as redundant and is thus deleted to prevent the cluttering of a huge forum.
2. It may have been out off bound with what is consideret fitting within the frame of what basically is and will allways bee a game based community.
3. It may be considered inflamertory and is either moved or deleted to a "secure" place while admins look into the matter. In this case pms will be exchange to clarify the situation.
4. It may be just plain insulting and abusive - usually followed by a warning by pm or a post in that thread warning about futher deletetion if this continue.
5. Springcleaning. Sometimes we dress Do-or-Die in one of glassgows old dresses and send him out to clean this place.
A few numbers. The database right now is at a stunning 68.92 MB, there are 78041 post in 8099 threads.
This give us 11.35 topics a day with 109.37 posts in them.
That means that everyone of our 1362 users posts 1.91 post a day!. And keep in mind that of the 1362 users we have over 500 that is inactive. You do the math.
6. It may be that some posters are keeping posting in the wrong sections all the time and we need to move topics alot. After a while we start deletion. We aint your mum - so please try to post in the relevant section.
7. If you post in the "have you been banned" section and without anything regarding to the case - deletion is the sure thing.
8. It may have contained information in some way about warez and other things not allowed here.
With that amount of spam from you spam happy and very lovely people, we need to put an effort in to keep this place up and running hehe
We know that alot of our members and regs dont read all sections everyday, but the forum admins at least try to keep an eye on as much of what is going on the forum every day.
So if your post get deleted or locked - just rember that in the great world of spam your post is only a very small portion off it.
In other words - stop whining about it!
