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One user posting a different opinion is no reason he had to delete the whole thread.

There's always 2 sides to a story.
Since 2013 Albrecht has created (and deleted) 4 accounts to get feedback on his fractal music.
Whenever a user posted anything that was not positive praise (without being insulting, mostly it was constructive criticism, we made that sure each time) he first asked the user to stop posting in his threads. Which is of course as legit as the user denying that request.
Then he asked the moderators to delete posts he disliked but this didn't happen, as the posts where within our guidelines.
He then deleted his account or the whole thread, which also deleted long texts of other users involved.

This is not fair to other users who took their time to answer him and give tips how to make it even better.
Tips that would help others as well.

And it is not how this forum (even the whole internet) works in general.
When you display your work/art here, you have to take what comes as feedback - as long as the language isn't vulgar or explicit.
This is not your personal promotion forum and it's not the moderators job to filter out what you personally don't like (even in "your" thread)

As a consequence of this ongoing nuisance the moderators have deceided that users can't delete the threads they started anymore.


http://www.fractalforums.com/board-rules/do's-and-don't-do's/

Fear not - if ever any member wants one of their posts deleted, just ask a mod and we'll do with no problem.

It's just that no member should be able to delete other members' posts.  Deleting the first post in a thread kills the whole thread, even if others have posted.

If a member really wants, we can delete all their posts in a thread except the first, which they can then edit however they like.  But the posts of others will remain!

Seems the fairest solution to me - but we are open to better ideas.  Feel free to discuss here or elsewhere in the forum.

That has always been the case!  While we will never delete posts that don't break rules, or are seen as not wanted by the member who started a topic but remain civil and rule-abiding, we will split topics into two if they go totally off subject.

Directly insulting another member, or their works, is a tricky thing to judge as it is often a perceived insult when one was not intended.  There is a fine line between insulting and honestly expressing an opinion.

Veering off topic is a thing that happens in real world conversations all the time.  So if one of your topics starts to do that, we assume everybody is OK with that unless we get a complaint - which is usually dealt with by requesting people stay on topic.  If, after that, it continues to go off topic we can split it into two threads.  Unless there is good reason to split it without even making the request first!

We are committed to allowing freedom of speech, but that does not include vulgarity, profanity, or insulting other members directly.  It does include expressing a negative opinion and a little bit of off-topic-but-still-related comments.

But we don't just delete people's posts if they don't violate any rules or just because the original poster doesn't like them.



EDIT - This thread proves that there is an exception to every rule!!

Perhaps we should consider moving it to the "Discuss Fractal Forums" section and re-name it to something a bit more relevant   

Havent recognized this thread, is this the dude i had to delete his account for on his request and registered 2 snd with this one even 3 new accounts???

This dude is banned for 30 days!!!!!