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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
Immaterial of the reason given for deletion being factually correct, deleting the post was really quite needless was it not? It is worth mods remembering that people can feel quite offended when their posts are deleted/edited especially when it's for a pretty contentious reason.
That said, the mods generally do a great job on this site.
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As John F pointed out in post #12, the Forum Guidelines have the following instruction:
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"Threads have a life of their own and may stray in all sorts of directions. However, if the original poster, or a moderator, requests that a thread stay on topic then please respect their wishes. You could start a thread of your own about the new topic, if you want. If a thread moves to parallel discussion of two separate topics then you may also request a moderator to move posts related to a new topic to their own thread with the "Report Posts" function."
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Although as I said, I am not so sure I necessarily agree with pdurrant about the need to exclude such posts.
Nevertheless, I don't believe anyone has a leg to stand on, if they claim to be insulted that their ignoring of the OP's request
and moderator warning (multiple, in fact) was deleted.