I'm saddened to see Speakeasy gone. He provided a lot of value to the forum - especially in areas where few other are knowledgeable - and I've been blissfully unaware of any issues. I'm definitively not questioning the actions of admin, but I do believe there are room for transparency in the future. As late as in December, members went missing after drama and I was left trying to add 1+1 to figure out what happened. It's only thanks to people derailing this thread, which I'm now part of, that I learned about Speakeasy.
On-topic I find this to be an important discussion. I always assumed that we were free to delete (not vandalise) our content whenever we wanted, which was a feature I appreciated. I'm just as annoyed as anyone else whenever I stumble upon a [deleted] post on Reddit, but thought that privacy triumphed it. If the rule is that admin might restore our deleted posts, then it should be highlighted somewhere.
Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
I was wondering where Speakeasy had gone only the other day, and came across this thread by chance.
It seems like lots of people have come out of the woodwork, mods and members alike, to talk about someone who is no longer here to defend himself.
This is unfortunately the downside of forums; power concentrated in the hands of a few select people.
It seems like lots of people have come out of the woodwork, mods and members alike, to talk about someone who is no longer here to defend himself.
This is unfortunately the downside of forums; power concentrated in the hands of a few select people.
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It looks like this thread answers my question as to what happened to the list of Modern Green Resources 

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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
Andy E wrote:It looks like this thread answers my question as to what happened to the list of Modern Green Resources
Speakeasy posted his Modern Greek Resources list over at the old forum: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41261&PN=1
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
lavengro wrote:Andy E wrote:It looks like this thread answers my question as to what happened to the list of Modern Green Resources
Speakeasy posted his Modern Greek Resources list over at the old forum: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=41261&PN=1
Yeah I know I've added that link to the end of the Modern Greek Resources thread..
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
Andy E wrote:Yeah I know ....
I recklessly forgot to put on my psychic hat to ascertain what you knew before posting something I thought might be helpful.
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
You forgot something...
As I recklessly forgot to put on my psychic hat to ascertain that you were going be upset about me not thanking you profusely for something my reading of the entire thread had already pointed out to me....
lavengro wrote:<sarcasm>I recklessly forgot to put on my psychic hat to ascertain what you knew before posting something I thought might be helpful.</sarcasm>
As I recklessly forgot to put on my psychic hat to ascertain that you were going be upset about me not thanking you profusely for something my reading of the entire thread had already pointed out to me....

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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
All critical information should be in the Wiki
Could we perhaps create a new forum ritual: quoting (maybe just a part of) someone's post and saying:
"This is excellent information! Could you/may I please paste it into the Wiki?"
Forgive me if this has been discussed before, I vaguely remember but I can't recall where. I just know that so much of the information I find most useful is in threads that get buried with time, or worse, buried in logs where (as noted in a recent feature requests thread) one is not able to bookmark (at least not using forum tools) favorite posts, only entire threads, which not so helpful given lengthy logs.
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Ho-hum, waiting for the latest neurological relapse to pass.
Study tips for (mental) invalids welcome!
Study tips for (mental) invalids welcome!
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
Meanwhile, I now know what the "add foe" bit on people's profile pages means. After five years of membership...
It isn't especially transparent (compared to something "block user").
It isn't especially transparent (compared to something "block user").
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Re: Deleting your own posts should not be bannable. All critical information should be in the Wiki.
Hi, can I just say that I don't want to fall into any obscure rules traps. After reading for quite some time without an account, I registered. I've only posted one other post and I discovered this had to be "approved". It happened fairly sharpish, but seems a bit excessive. When it was posted it bizarrely had a section of the post repeated, so I thought I would edit it to correct it and the edit now also has to be 'approved'. Is this excessive gatekeeping? I've been on message boards since Usenet and I find the more obstacles you put in a user's path, the less they post.
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