Why does the boards team delete posts once in a while?

AnataBakka·May 6, 2018·1 votes·2,338 views

It keeps on happening, this is my third time with this post https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/jFwTE8Oj-playing-off-meta-in-ranked-int-feeding-ban? The other 2 occasions were on the euw boards, this one first https://boards.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behaviour-en/MtsWiUEj-i-got-suspended-because-of-this? and then this one https://boards.euw.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support-en/Ev9lFvkc-i-have-been-banned? but i understood the last one because someone asked on the boards how much was his account worth, and i agree that's not a good thing to do. But the other two?

The first one is a post made preeeeety long ago, like 2 months ago, but it was deleted only now. I even made some pretty long conversations over there, a lot of people answering me, and now i lost all of that.

People send me messages and when i try to see the context the page is deleted. I agree with posts being locked, but not really with them being deleted.

ps: these are not my posts

12 Comments

Timethief49May 6, 20182 votes

Either the op deleted it or the op went havok in the comments.

AnataBakkaMay 6, 20181 votes

but even if the op deletes it, you can still see the conversations, afaik, right?

Timethief49May 6, 20182 votes

No, if the op deletes it its gone. If a mod locks the post you can still see it but not comment.

AnataBakkaMay 6, 20181 votes

oh, that explains a few things, ty

ModKagenoOuMay 6, 20182 votes

Remember that the time we do our actions isnt so much about when the post is made, as when it is REPORTED (although rarely do we go and delete old threads on NA at least) so its very possible that something slipped through and then got reported much later. If the Mod didn't check the date the post was actually made they might have thought it was current (Mods are people too so minor oversights do happen xD) and removed it with respect to normal rules for current threads. Sometimes people go around digging up and reporting old threads, as for why, I have no idea lol

AnataBakkaMay 6, 20181 votes

no way we can keep history of stuff we have said? for example if one deleted his post he can still see what he wrote, even though the others can't. It would be cool if you could still see your comments when they get deleted

as i said in the op, i wrote a lot of philosophy stuff, stuff that i wouldn't have thought before, and it feels bad losing that stuff

KilanostMay 6, 20181 votes

Yea discourse peob took a wrong turn into the realm of hate speech and harrassment and there were prob enough ppl involved that it was better to delete the thread than to delete each post and penalize each person.

AnataBakkaMay 6, 20181 votes

well that's harsh, there was no hate speech or harrassment in my conversations

KilanostMay 6, 20181 votes

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well that's harsh, there was no hate speech or harrassment in my conversations

If you think it's worth repeating type it into a new thread.

ModThe DjinnMay 6, 20181 votes

I can't speak for the actions of EUW moderators, but posts on NA are deleted for one of several reasons:

Incorrect board placement before enough discussion has started that it's better to leave the thread up.
Content in the initial post that violates the Universal Rules.
Sufficient content in the comments that violates the Universal Rules, to an extent that it's easier to delete the entire post than simply delete the individual comments.

AnataBakkaMay 6, 20181 votes

"it's easier to delete the entire post than simply delete the individual comments" lol ok