When mods should not delete.

[PrinceOfCanada]

Mods should not delete factual statements. Someone in the thread about the Danish Monarchy made some silly assertions about polling. I pointed out that this person clearly knows nothing about statistics or sampling.

Guess what? Deleted. It was a factual statement based on what the person said. It was as factual as saying "You don't know anything about how evolution works" to a creationist who says "I'm not descended from monkeys!"

But, of course... it was a mod who had made that statement. Poor form to delete it. Very, very poor form indeed.

[Elspeth]

If a post is deleted for whatever reason, we delete the responses to it or else the thread doesn't make sense if you have responses hanging there and the original comment isn't there any more.

Let me have a look at the thread and discuss the deletions with the Danish moderators and get back to you in more detail.

[PrinceOfCanada]

{repeated deleted post and said that it seemed to be OK for mods to say incorrect things but not to point them out - Elspeth}

[Elspeth]

It isn't just mods; a post like that to any poster is likely to be deleted. Saying something like "actually, that isn't correct" would be acceptable in such a situation; calling another person ignorant isn't. Even if it is true.

I've spent a long time posting in forums about the evolution wars, and I've been on forums where saying "you don't know anything about how evolution works" would be enough to get a post pulled, along with a terse PM to please restrict your response to addressing the issue.

Feel free to go back there and explain about statistics and polling and sampling, which would be instructive for everyone and wouldn't be calculated to try and make another poster look like an idiot.