We seem to have a single proven fact in this thread (if you regard the copy of the notice to strike off published elsewhere and referenced as a fact).
Neil, I understand and can respect your perspective, but I think you will find that the majority of hard evidence has been kept out of this thread as a mark of respect. I don’t think it is in Mana Audio Ltd or the preceding Mana Acoustics Ltd’s interest for information publicly available from Companies House, their published accounts, County Court Judgements etc to be dragged across this forum. This information is obviously available to any party that is interested via the appropriate legal channels as it is for any Ltd company, but I have to admit I am personally very grateful it is not currently on public view here. On a thread such as this one has to be thankful for small mercies.
We then have many people (Tony you are as guilty as the rest) seemingly demanding to know what is going on and full of indignation about censorship on the Mana forum.
I am making no demands, just allowing free discussion. I am trying to keep myself as far away from the actual core topic as possible – my comments here are primarily in defence of my moderation approach and my forum. To be honest I have very little personal interest in Mana Audio / Acoustics products or people and I am trying my hardest not to get dragged in.
Tony. I have no problem with you wanting to warn PFM members about a possible serious situation and I think a sticky post on the forum with about 3 posts from this thread would fit the bill admirably.
I have covered this point in depth earlier – any such statement would require direct editorial input from myself in the form of selecting what information is pertinent to the topic and what is not. I am simply not prepared to get involved / entrenched in this issue to that level. My role here is simply as the owner of this forum (i.e. publisher of other people’s content), I do not want to have any creative input to this story, and as such I only answer questions such as yours when pushed and when they reflect on my forum.
My hope is that the thread will soon have simply run it’s course and drop from view. I am tired of it now and the amount of time I am having to spend moderating is really eating into my own resources (there is currently a huge pile of records in the middle of the room that won’t clean, grade and list themselves).
On the topic of deleting posts. You are right. The effect at this end is confusing. For the future would it be possible for the moderators to delete the content of the post and replace it with a standard line along the lines of "Post content deleted by the moderator" but leave the actual post/poster in the thread trail. You could even provide a reason (rude defammatory....) if you felt so inclined.
I accept your point as being valid but the current situation is has not been arrived at without thought. On the very rare occasion a moderator or I delete a post the action is not made public, it is IMHO something private between the moderator and the poster. Making such an action public only runs the risk of adding what could be seen as humiliation or punishment to the moderation action and this is not my goal. This way the post just disappears and no one is hurt (apart perhaps from myself who probably gets the blame for whacking
way more posts than I actually do!). I’d guess that more than 95% of vanishing / edited posts are by the user themselves). I very, very rarely delete posts (other than routine maintenance pruning of ancient obsolete threads to save database space).
I hope this answers at least some of your points.
Tony.
