iv noticed some threads appear to vanish from the forums for no apparent reason, i can understand if they contained offensive material, but im pretty sure they didnt. can the CDN staff explain?

I haven't seen any posts dissappear actually..do you have any examples?

could you give an example.please,could we be under new managment?wheres brett?

The funnier the posts the liklier the thread will be deleted. I was in line for a Noble Prize for Funny for several of my posts last year but the staff deleted them and the Nobel Society couldn't hand over the cheque.

Hi... we're just back from Detroit...

Apart from offensive material, posts may be removed if they are disruptive to a 'professional' design discussion (in all but the Just Talk forum), or off-topic.

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Cant PoloMint or one of the other office trainees edit the posts but maintain the key elements so the threads seem less obviously disjointed?

Janet... some of your posts are causing the problems (see your Private Messages).

Polo mint... The Sketch Wall topic was fine...but we have limited data transfer allowances on the Forum server, so we can't handle so many attached images at the moment. We might need to start trimming off all but the most recent 1-2 months of the Sketch Wall.

Another possibility is to allow attached images and Photo Albums in the Forums, but linked with paid Premium Forums membership (would be less than the main site membership) to cover costs...

I think you should do the trimming idea! It would be wrong to have to pay to see your own pictures on the web. It would also cut down on the amount of helpful advice that people could give if they couldn't see the pics.

I wouldn't have a problem about getting the old pages deleted, especially if they're months old and no one wants to see them. Maybe you could keep the original message that started the topic and cut out all the commentary since.

Last, is anyone going to start a new Sketch Wall? Can I, or should we wait until this issue is worked out?

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All I can read are the topic titles: "Last Warning" Uh-oh Spagetti-ohs!

In response to "Last Warning" (as my reply button is still locked) of course I respect and understand the need for a 'professional' environment. However design requires debate and this is not possible in a playpen.

Commercial design is not based on indescriminate encouragement of mediocre thought (the results of which are on show for all in the Where are the cov grads thread- "designing shapes..." ouch)
but on their intellectual and aesthetic merits. If something looks stupid or ugly why not let the watching crowd say so, on the proviso they back up their views with reasoned arguements?

My earlier contention that designers seem largely dour, self-important and incapable of intelligently tongue-in-cheek self-depreciation is reinforced when the chucklesome observations of are cut leaving thread after thread of dryly witless nonsense.
The continual complaints of the tweens who utterly fail to make the grade either textually or graphically can blame me for their 'designs' getting ripped by the wider audience but comprimising rigourous peer review for some lame message-board code of honour is not helping anyone in the long run.
Ironically the daily sketch thread where lately I did attempt to engage in design speak with some of the less slow mmembers got deleted for reasons discussed above.

Why not allow unmodified exchange of ideas? If designers are perpetual children as is often stated in their own web bios, let the kidz graduate from kindergarten and allow the rules of the playground take over.
Nannyish over-moderation is not conducive to fostering professionaly frank exchange of views. Conversly it permits and encourages amateurish and childish work and discussion; ie the opposite of professionality.



PS Just kidding, this is just a fun diversion. Therefore when said tweens, and even more distressing 20- and 30-somethings start some new cringeable thread about "my new Lamborghini offroader" and I submit some hellarious/incisive content in response, its for my own amusement. Deleting it might make the thread more boring and the forum more clogged with 'professional' (as defined by you) work but its fine by me.