Originally Posted by
RichMSN
I guess I need to be clear about what I posted. I would never expect all communications between a moderator and a poster be made public. I'm talking about all actions -- post deletions and editing (the editing is already quite public) and suspensions -- why and for how long.
If you show what you deleted, it's not really deleted, is it? It's right there causing almost as much disruption as if the board were not moderated at all. If you show that a post was deleted without showing the content, that just raises distracting questions unrelated to the mission of FT and doesn't satisfy anyone.
Similarly if you publish rationale for suspensions that could impair the member's ability to rejoin FT successfully, with everyone letting bygones be bygones. I don't see any benefit that outweighs the damage to FT this proposal would cause.