Woot censorship (re. XP vs. Vista)

[Gatzby]

@nautilusNY

What’s the deal with Woot admin(s) editing threads to remove messages? In today’s woot thread someone asked a question about XP vs Vista and there were several (considered) replies but some woot admin has erased them all. I understand that it is not relevant to the product but that is how internet forums work, non?

Couldn’t the admin have created a new thread and moved the messages there or at least pointed the users to that thread instead of doing the internet equivalent of showing the middle finger? Is it a good policy to treat customers this way?

Product threads have always been the most heavily moderated section of our forums, as they’re meant to be a discussion about the product. The Vista debate evolved into a lot of misinformation, name-calling, and all of it was off-topic.

Moving individual posts isn’t really a feasible move with the current forum software as it is. It probably would have taken at least 2 hours and maybe half the posts would have survived anyway, assuming the merge functionality is feeling peppy that day.