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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4608410, member: 112852&quot;]I understand that having one&#039;s work, which one writes with integrity, deleted by a moderator can be very upsetting.&nbsp; This has happened to me on other forums outside CT.&nbsp; You see, what was happening is that people would attack me with insults, while posting untrue claims about facts.&nbsp; However, their insults would not be deleted, but my reasoned, carefully-worded, factually supported responses would invariably be deleted.&nbsp; It certainly wasn&#039;t fair, but that&#039;s how it was.&nbsp; So I simply started using my authority as a thread author to delete comments that began with insults. </p><p><br /></p><p>But in this case, an entire thread was removed, and individual people in good-standing here were not targeted or singled out.&nbsp; Our mustachioed, hat-and-sun-glasses wearing moderator put up a friendly sticky to explain what happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to encourage all the members here, whom I look up to and respect, to read the sticky post again.&nbsp; It&#039;s not actually intended as a punishment at all--just a warning--one could even call it a &quot;reminder with possible consequences indicated.&quot;&nbsp; (And even though I, by luck, never saw the post, I am glad of the reminder myself, as I easily could have done the same as others did.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the reminder sticky, it was prefaced with a compliment.&nbsp; It makes no personal attacks.&nbsp; And the tone and the writing are informal in a kind of pleasingly folksy way.&nbsp; So let&#039;s not see the sticky as a punishment, please.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an old expression: &quot;jaw-jaw is better than war-war.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps we can repurpose that into &quot;coin-coin is better than protest-protest.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s go back to focusing on what we all are here to do, and what we all love: posting here in a great community about ancient coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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