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Originally Posted by Elphaba
SecretMethod, why do concerns such as mine need to be private? It is an honest question on my part and I ask it with full respect to all of the mods and admins here.
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To be perfectly frank, concerns like yours ought to be brought up in private because, just as you were quick to make hasty, unsupported assumptions of moderator misconduct, I have four years of experience here telling me that, when such public posts are made, other members tend to make the same assumptions based only on your posts, despite having even LESS evidence of the fact than you do (you, at least, know that you did actually make a post, other members don't even have that knowledge). This is especially true here in Tilted Politics where, according to the range of members who frequent the forum, individual mods are somehow simultaneously biased against liberals AND conservatives (which I can only take to mean the mods are being as even-handed as possible if *everyone* thinks they're being picked on). So now, we have not one, not two, but THREE posts accusing "a mod" of deleting a post of yours with no basis for the assumption other than your post being gone (this IS technology you know, things happen). Making such public posts turns what is ultimately a site error into an ongoing accusation of mod impropriety, stirring up dissent among an unnecessary number of members beyond the one for whom confusion is understandable. Note, however, that I said confusion, not screaming bloody murder and assuming you're being picked on.
Furthermore, this is a fantastic example of why such concerns should be made in private because we have now wasted EIGHT posts and essentially hijacked TWO threads over what amounts to a computer glitch. More often than not, "air[ing] a complaint out in the open" is a waste of your time, our time, and the time of your fellow TFP'ers.