Ron Paul thread deleted?

that seems outside the bounds of a mod's discretion. you're not an editor

you shouldn't even be a mod, you post all kinds of hateful racist shit on a pretty regular basis. put the thread back

 

Nope, I'm right here.



Regards,

 

I started it there because I wanted feedback on his economic viewpoints and why they differ so greatly from those of all the other candidates. Also, I wanted to get suggestions on how, through his positions on issues(spec. econ), we could increase his chance of getting elected - also why those policy decisions might hurt him.



Regards,


edit: i figured there are tons of threads in that forum talking about other people: Bernanke, various fund managers, Buffet, etc. that it was ok to talk about specific people.

 

It's the holy grail of political posting... a riskless edge.

 

That can be said of a discussion about any public figure. How many "fcuking greenspan did this to us!" posts are there in that forum? Between those and the Helicopter-Ben rhetoric I would have thought a discussion about a candidate's economic policies would have been cool. My mistake.



Regards,

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

Threads in the P&R forum degrade into those bitchfests - I put it in the economics forum specifically because I wanted it in there: I wanted a discussion about his economic views and what they meant, their impact, etc.

The thread in the P&R forum will be trash in a few days because you're right, that's what happens in there.

 

I generally agree, that a Moderator who axes a thread based on his opinion is way overstepping his bounds.

Most threads on ET descend into the kinds of things you are apparently trying to protect us from.

I would think it best if you avoid censorship

 

So it was deleted because it might have turned into a heated discussion? Pre-emptive deletions. Is that like pre-emptive strikes? I'm reminded of Orwell, 1984, and Bush. Thought crime. What's that movie with Tom Cruise? Pre-crimes.

 

is this what happened to the handful of other unexplained deletions in the last few months? this was the fourth time in recent memory that ultimately went unexplained when i contacted the staff

the threads in question never got nasty, and the OP's weren't deleted users