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Originally Posted by Sparky 45
I'm pretty careful about what I post, so it hasn't happened to me. I'm curious about what happens. Does the poster get notified or does it just go away? Some get edited, and some go away completely. Just wondering.
P.S. I think the mods do a great job of keeping this site on track! Thanks!
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This is not restarting the debate about what constitutes "pro pics", so please don't react to this post as that. Sparky 45 asks a legitimate question and I would like to respectfully suggest a particular approach to post deletion.
I've had the experience of posting a number of posts, all of one subject, in a thread on the OCC site. Those posts were on OCC for several years, and had been seemingly well-received and had garnered a number of "thanks." One day, when I went to look for them, I realized that they were gone - gone without a trace. When I inquired, I was originally told that the reason was unknown. Turns out the subject/owner of the pictures had requested removal - at least that's what I was told.
I feel that in a case like this, it's a fair request to make that the poster be notified of both the deletion and the reason. One simple explanation for this is that since no one at OCC originally could tell me why, I was thinking I would just repost them, which the mods would not have been happy about; I certainly would have continued to post new pics of that subject if I hadn't known the reason for deletion. An alternative approach might be to leave the posts there and just delete the pics, with a message indicating that the owner had requested they be taken down. At least then the poster would have a chance of knowing what happened. Does this request seem reasonable?
PS - The deletion of those posts has gotten me a number of PM requests from other OCC members for me to email the removed pics privately to them. I have totally stopped private emailing any pics to OCC members - it's against the rules anyway.