Reputations

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Originally Posted by obloquy

One time I got a positive rep on a post that was deleted by a moderator shortly after.

I wonder why. Perhaps a moderator can tell us all why a reputation point would be deleted. So we all know for future times.

[Boromir88]

I wonder why. Perhaps a moderator can tell us all why a reputation point would be deleted. So we all know for future times.

I think obloquy was talking about the actual post being deleted. The post that someone repped him for actually got deleted, not the rep points themselves.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Not a moderator, but just hazarding a guess, throwing in my '2 cents': what one person finds amusing or interesting, another may not, and similarly what may be considered by the author of the post and others on the board as well, may not actually be considered strictly suitable by a moderator and therefore deleted. Similarly it may just have such stupidly long sentences and awful grammar like this post that its simply a crying shame and would scare the children...

Just a thought. I mean, I've been surprised to be rated for a post before, a very short one - I wouldn't have expected to be rated for it, but someone on the board thought it was amusing, so, well, I ain't complaining. Similarly misunderstandings can come about from a post and so it may be rated negatively, even when the author did not mean it to be at all offensive - or it may be offensive yet someone finds it amusing and so positively rates it. If it actually is offensive or unsuitable, the moderators are just doing their job by deleting it. Don't worry, I'm fairly sure the admins don't roam the boards scrutinising reputations and then callously ghosting away the ones that have recieved rep points.

Well. Fairly sure. Who knows what admins do for a laugh? Off away in their barrows...busy moving in mysterious ways...