Stasi/Gestapo Like Admins Deleting Posts Here

[Dracula]

Just so no one thinks that Bill was randomly posting porn to Today, it was a direct link to Back Side To The Future, after Bill expressed an interest in doing a BSTTF conversion to his car for presentation at DCS '14 in Dayton. Thus, it wasn't random porn, but rather relevant and pertinent porn. Bill's link was appropriately replace with a link to the porn without the porn version of BSTTF found on YouTube.

This is true. I should have clarified that, while relevant to the discussion, it was, in fact, porn, and was dealt with in the proper manner. To my knowledge, Bill has never expressed any ill-will towards this action and was promptly informed as to why his post was deleted.

If you're doing your job as an admin, the extent of your extra work should be splitting threads, orienting images, and occasionally creating subsections when relevant. There's no excuse to don the jack-boots and swastika arm band to monitor a group of adults.

[Tamir A.]

Ok boys and girls. Lots of drama on here lately for a whole lot of nothing. I just reviewed the two posts that were deleted from the thread referenced. One post was totally benign and was a one liner joke about Bill Robertson. The other was a clear hearsay and slandering of DPI and didn't add to the already ongoing discussion of that thread.

Let's just all take a step back and take a deep breath. For the most part very few posts are deleted on this forum, and as you can see the thread wasn't deleted. There is no collusion with any vendors on this forum, trust me. I've been involved in this community for a very long time and have the utmost respect for the time and money vendors put into working on our cars, etc. Do some of them make mistakes or get involved in scenarios with owners that piss of the owners? Of course, we are all human and that is bound to occur. I like to think those types of disputes are best suited for private discussions between the owner and the vendor. But occasionally it spills into the public forums and it has to be treated with a sense of caution.

I leave a lot of responsibility to maintaining the peace to my moderators on the forum, but I can't help but be surprised at the growing level of antagonism and pissed off posts over the last few years. It's disappointing to say the least, and I hope that it levels out one day. I believe the crux of the forum conversations should be directed around technical help, DeLorean related activities, historical elements, etc. If we can stick to these things without users snarking at each other all would be good. Let's try and keep it civil people.

T.