Missing thread

[Nigello]

Why has the thread about the police activity/crime on Goodrich Road been removed? I've searched for it, but it's nowhere to be found.

[Penguin68]

Possibly because the thread was merely speculation - other than surmise there is no evidence of any crime or even fatality (criminal or otherwise). Police tapes go up for a myriad of different reasons. Until such time as there is anything actually to say, saying nothing may be understood as the best policy. At the worst it arouses fears or suspicions which may be entirely unjustified, with no obvious remedy normally of scotching them, once the speculative thread is out of the bag.

[Nigello]

I agree the title and original post was speculative but the other posts offered extra sources, so I see no problems big enough to warrant a complete removal. I'm unimpressed with the criteria employed (this time) to remove a post.

[tash b]

I replied on that this morning and then was deleted shortly after, my mum is the neighbour to upstairs of this person and I have known that person since I was very young there post was murder which I said on my post this morning that people should not jump to conclusions and really get a life and leave this person to rest in peace.

[Nigello]

-- moved topic --

[Administrator]

Nigello

How can you be unimpressed by the criteria employed to remove a post when you don't know what the criteria was?

We were asked to remove it by an authority because the family had not been informed and it may cause them distress to read the thread.

[Nigello]

Tell us the criteria! You allow speculation on some topics, not others. I can understand that some posts need to be treated in ways that are different from certain others but I don't know how you decide that, or indeed whether you have a thought-out policy at all (as opposed to a case-by-case approach).

[Otta]

If some poor person has died whether in suspicious circumstances or not, surely you can see why family and friends may not want to read a thread "about" it. It's Hardly speculating about a potential M&S opening.

[Administrator]

What Otta said. I just told you the criteria, we were asked to remove it.

Apart from the obvious removal of postings that are distressing, illegal, racist etc there's not really a thought out criteria. There's a bit more on the Terms of Use page but I don't think there needs to be anything so formal.

[Otta]

Just apply common sense, and sensitivity Nigello and you'll be on the right track.

[tash b]

Otta obviously common sense and sensitivity is what nigello defentially needs to work on.