Anonymous wrote:Your comment is unnecessary and unhelpful, and you didn't know what was happening in that thread.

You appear to be very touchy and have a very low threshold before complaining about something. I was just making a general observation.

Fair enough, Jeff, and that was why I was trying to tread respectfully.

I hope the OP knows I meant no personal insult. I was responding to her thread here, not her original thread.

That said, I also hope that everyone can understand the point I was trying to make about how we see threads.

As you can see, Jeff, I'm not 9:14 and don't engage in trolling or sock puppeting and I'm not afraid to use the report button when I think something is off. Of course, I'm also not afraid to bring the fire on occasions.

I like it here. I value what you do and I feel a responsibility to raise the bar when I can. Something about OP's thread here felt unfair to me, but, of course, in the absence of more detail, I tried to be as fair as possible in my response.

Thanks for the clarification.

Let me just say for the record that the OP's thread was not a discussion thread and was one that was clearly "hers".

Actually, PP, I think you are being too hard on 9:14.

You're right, s/he doesn't know what was going on in the thread because you didn't clue us in on what thread you were talking about. However, it is a good point to question whether a thread is "yours" if you are the OP and to what degree you should get to control what gets removed and what doesn't. That is a touchy issue around here and it is a slippery slope, some think, from asking for mean things to be removed from "your" thread, to asking for people you disagree with to shut up. I hope you understand that point and consider maybe that is what 9:14 meant.

Of course, I don't know for sure if that is what 9:14 because I am not them. Generally, I find Jeff's admin decisions spot on and if he removed posts, I'm quite likely to think he did a good thing. I think he does an overall great job running a site that is something like herding anonymous cats.

That said, I think it's good for us to consider the boundaries and ramifications of our power to call threads "ours".

I hope that makes sense.

Your comment is unnecessary and unhelpful, and you didn't know what was happening in that thread.

Interesting that people seem to think they "own" threads here.

Hi Jeff, I asked you earlier in the day about removing some negative and insulting posts in my thread. I appreciate that you cleared them out. Many thanks for the fast attention and help.