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Can anyone explain the various types of editorial control applied by Sift and/or the moderators?

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Up until last Thursday (15th April) there was a thread that could be found at https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/employee-missed-out-for-auto-enrolment-pension ... but now this link just generates a screen with "Oops. We can't find that content, something went wrong" emblazoned across it.

To be honest I can't even remember the gist of it (or whether there was anything controversial within it), but I received one of those “AccountingWEB - Your reply has been Thanked” emails relating to it, sent at 00:10 on Friday.  By the time I'd got up however, selecting the link in the Thank You email (or searching for the original post) only resulted in the “Oops” screen (as per above) ... and the only guidance on the page says "you can either contact the editor, go to our homepage, or use the search box below to find what you're looking for".

So I emailed editor@ on Friday afternoon to enquire whether something had gone wrong with the link, or for an explanation of what’s going on ... but have not heard back.  Can anyone explain how this situation arises - and what it means?

And while we're on that topic, the differences between contributors being banned (but their posts retained) and threads becoming completely unavailable ... as opposed to threads that are merely frozen in aspic (i.e. made read-only) ... and why the occasional post appears in a pretty pink box ... and so on?

It can't be much fun moderating some of the spats on here, but there's a lot of useful stuff published (through the efforts of many hours by many posters), so it would be nice to understand what causes things to be classified as a transgression from time to time ... and how that is variously treated.

This is NOT meant to stir $hit ... I'd honestly like to understand better how rules are applied (and what happenned to the post at the beginning of this query)!

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By SteveHa
20th Apr 2021 18:21

@Hugo - your guess is as good as mine. These forums have not made much sense since the changes, to me.

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By Ruddles
20th Apr 2021 18:26

I can’t comment on that particular thread. Perhaps the questioner asked for the post to be taken down. But who knows?

You have, though, touched on one point that irks me. If someone has been permanently banned it makes no sense whatsoever to leave their content, however innocuous some of it might be, on display. Effectively the individual is allowed to remain a member, albeit under a series of different IDs.

Perhaps it’s a deliberate ploy by the moderators who think I might eventually tire and stop pestering them. How wrong they would be.

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By Duggimon
21st Apr 2021 09:30

The thread in question was posted by ih11 on 15 April 2021 and gathered nine answers before, apparently, being deleted for reasons I do not know.

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By DJKL
21st Apr 2021 10:41

I suspect the destruction of threads on here is merely a manifestation of the workings of Quantum physics, a wave function collapse perhaps.

(I am demob happy, I have a proper business excuse to leave Edinburgh for the day, first time I have been out of here since March 2020, so heading out in forty minutes to drive over the Forth for a two hour road trip with the sun shining)

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By Hugo Fair
21st Apr 2021 13:23

Thanks for jogging my memory ... which certainly fails to recollect anything faintly controversial within the responses.

As I concluded in my OP ... "This is NOT meant to stir $hit ... I'd honestly like to understand better how rules are applied (and what happened to the post at the beginning of this query)!"

So, much though I appreciate the support and (quantum-based) suggestions from other members, it'd be nice to get a response from John - or whoever's in charge of this aspect at Sift Towers.

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