Rojo/Wejo could we get an explanation as to the proliferation of deleted posts?

wejo wrote:

John Wesley Harding wrote:

Until relatively recently there was no “this post has been removed” memo so you wouldn’t have been aware of all the deleted posts, so that’s part of it. Much of it has to do with the epic hike in reported posts. Like someone else surmised, I think a lot of reported posts are deleted without much thought even though they don’t really violate LetsRun guidelines. That also partially explains the apparent randomness and inconsistency: it’s not “random,” one post was reported while another was not. There are some people who definitely go report-happy and will go through a thread and report two dozen posts they disagree with as “personal attacks of another person or forum poster,” which is so annoying. Most of the time when I see like “49 reported posts require review” I ignore it because it sounds like a pain in the ass.

I wouldn’t say apart from the Wiley related posts their have been more deletions or reported posts .

With posts related to her there has been a concerted effort to get them removed by some automatic tools we use behind the scenes. That causes more posts to be reported and some posts to be deleted that shouldn’t have been. We have restored many of these posts.

People are allowed to discuss the Huntington scandal, at the same time not every thread about women’s 1500 running or even Katelyn Tuohy needs to turn into a discussion of Huntington . So it’s a balancing act.

But the situation this weekend with Wiley running so well, the auto rules being taken advantage of, and then people complaining about their posts disappearing then just creates a cycle where they post the same thing again etc .

so sorry for any issues this week. we seem to have a bette handle on it now.

Hsiere wrote:

wejo wrote:

I wouldn’t say apart from the Wiley related posts their have been more deletions or reported posts .

With posts related to her there has been a concerted effort to get them removed by some automatic tools we use behind the scenes. That causes more posts to be reported and some posts to be deleted that shouldn’t have been. We have restored many of these posts.

People are allowed to discuss the Huntington scandal, at the same time not every thread about women’s 1500 running or even Katelyn Tuohy needs to turn into a discussion of Huntington . So it’s a balancing act.

But the situation this weekend with Wiley running so well, the auto rules being taken advantage of, and then people complaining about their posts disappearing then just creates a cycle where they post the same thing again etc .

so sorry for any issues this week. we seem to have a bette handle on it now.

I think many of us spend too much time here and then we can take it personally when our posts are deleted, as if our contributions matter. But once we recognize that our contributions don’t matter, we should spend much less time here.