Riot should not be deleting posts, only locking them

Again, they delete them if they violate the rules or are posted in the wrong board. They lock posts if the conversations get too off topic or heated, or they're posts that have been necro'd.

If you're going to sit here and throw a shit fit about the moderators, then move on. We see plenty of that daily.

No, it very much is because it violates one or more of the Universal Rules and/or the individual sub-board rules.

If you suspect that a moderator is removing your post simply because of a personal dislike, then please, feel free to bring that up to us in the Moderation Discord. If you don't want to speak to just us regular moderators, then you can ask to speak with a Herald (kind of our bosses, the leads of the volunteer program).

Feel free to make your own boards where you can make the rules.

It commonly is because a Moderator just didnt like what was being said.

That is patently false. I have never seen or heard of something like this happening. If it has happened, I would be willing to bet that one of the heralds reversed it immediately.

Spreading lies only weakens your argument regarding locked vs deleted.

Locking threads allows rule violation content to stay up. If someone posts a racial slur, a thread attacking a person, NSFW images, etc... there is no reason to merely lock it. We do sometimes choose to lock threads in some cases such as those that have devolved or are necro'd, but in general it is better to remove rule violating threads than to lock it and allow the violation to remain visible to the community.

Threads posted in the incorrect sub-board unfortunately due to programming limitations cannot be moved so instead of letting them continue to take space in the wrong sub-board, we opt to remove with no warning so that the OP can repost it in the correct location.

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Also if a post is deleted it does not mean you have violated any rules or posted in the wrong board. It commonly is because a Moderator just didnt like what was being said.

As I have said several times now, I have personally removed threads I agree with and left threads up that I disagree with. Why? Because although I agreed with what was being said, the threads violated the rules or were in the incorrect sub-board and even though I disagreed with some content, no violations were made. Our opinion on the content of the thread does not affect removal, only violation of the rules or curation of incorrectly placed threads result in removals.

As Wulf has already stated, if you do believe someone has done this you can bring it up to our oversight Heralds on the Discord.

Just to build on this; most rules and laws are meant to allow interpretation. This can be both good and bad though. It can be good because it would be quite silly to go:

Don't call someone a doodoo head. Don't call someone a boosted bafoon. Don't call someone brainless. Etc etc.

When you could just simplify it to

Don't be a jerk./Respect Everyone (The /respect everyone in case some people prefer Positive Guidelines phrasing).

Otherwise you get the smartasses that go "Well, I didn't call him a doodoo head. I called him a dunder head."