Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: vettim89

To the moderators,

If ever there comes a time to update the forums software a very nice and perhaps needed enhancement would be to give the owner of an AAR the ability to delete posts from his AAR. Some times AAR's get hijacked and if the owner of the AAR felt it was too far off topic and did not contribute to the narrative being told, it would be nice to have the ability to delete it. Many contributions from other posters provide valuable insight as to what is going on and have great relavance to the campaign and how its unfolding. Unfortunately I have also seen threads that have digressed into non-game related subjects, debates on important subjects that just don't beling in an AAR, and sometimes personal feuds.

It would be nice as the owner to be able to clean up our AAR's if we so desired. For the record, I have not had this happen in my own AAR but have seen it in others that I follow closely

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ORIGINAL: vettim89

To the moderators,

If ever there comes a time to update the forums software a very nice and perhaps needed enhancement would be to give the owner of an AAR the ability to delete posts from his AAR. Some times AAR's get hijacked and if the owner of the AAR felt it was too far off topic and did not contribute to the narrative being told, it would be nice to have the ability to delete it. Many contributions from other posters provide valuable insight as to what is going on and have great relavance to the campaign and how its unfolding. Unfortunately I have also seen threads that have digressed into non-game related subjects, debates on important subjects that just don't beling in an AAR, and sometimes personal feuds.

It would be nice as the owner to be able to clean up our AAR's if we so desired. For the record, I have not had this happen in my own AAR but have seen it in others that I follow closely

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

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ORIGINAL: vettim89

To the moderators,

If ever there comes a time to update the forums software a very nice and perhaps needed enhancement would be to give the owner of an AAR the ability to delete posts from his AAR. Some times AAR's get hijacked and if the owner of the AAR felt it was too far off topic and did not contribute to the narrative being told, it would be nice to have the ability to delete it. Many contributions from other posters provide valuable insight as to what is going on and have great relavance to the campaign and how its unfolding. Unfortunately I have also seen threads that have digressed into non-game related subjects, debates on important subjects that just don't beling in an AAR, and sometimes personal feuds.

It would be nice as the owner to be able to clean up our AAR's if we so desired. For the record, I have not had this happen in my own AAR but have seen it in others that I follow closely

I have intervened in AARs greater than zero times, upon request. But I will say that it causes about as many problems as it solves. Deletion tends to increase the perpetrators resolve to disrupt the AAR, non-deletion tends to accelerate the resignation of the owner to quit the game, or at least to abandon the AAR.

In my experience, the situations requiring moderator intervention are rare. And rare enough that they need to be handled as exceptions rather than as rules.

If any AAR owner feels that there is objectionable intrusion in his AAR - let me know and I will suppport. I do defintely agree with the concept that an AAE belongs to the owner of that AAR - and persons who persistantly disrupt an AAR are defintely not welcome.

Joe