Thou shalt not edit!
 

The response from a member should not have been deleted, nor the thread closed.

This has to stop.

His response, which I read before it was deleted, did not involve any system related problem, but rather it detailed the actual editing of a members post.

There was no valid reason to delete it or to close the thread.

Again, Enough.

Respectfully,
DRM500RUBYZR-1

Re: Post Editing by Board Members
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Originally Posted by Corvette95 View Post
We (I) have had a problem recently as well on the ZR1Registry Facebook page with my post getting erroneously fact checked with wrong information. Heavy handed admin can go too far.
Making vague claims without anything to reference isn't helpful. If you are having an issue with your posts on the Registry Facebook Group, please PM me with links to those posts, point out the specific issue, and I work with you on it.

Please remember, Facebook is owned and run by Meta, not us. The Registry is rather limited on what we can do. This is one of the many reasons why we need to steer any technical discussions to the Forum.
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Re: Thou shalt not edit!
 

I have not experienced this but I certainly agree. No editing by anyone expect the original poster except for violations of forum rules. If a forum moderator or admin person has an issue with a post, it is incumbent upon them to contact the poster directly and discuss it. Do not edit or remove posts without consent or very good reason and, in that case, with an explanation. If you feel as a moderator that a thread is going far off topic you can just close the thread--with explanation--as they do occasionally on the Mid Engine Corvette Forum. This post deletion problem happened to me several years ago on the Corvette Forum. I had posted a question about vendor pricing in a thread and my innocuous question was removed and I was reprimanded for asking it. Apparently in the same thread a number of folks had asked the same question, but an irritated moderator deleted them all (so of course I didn't know it was a problem) and reprimanded everyone for not knowing some obscure rule about vendor pricing. After a terse messaging discussion with one of the moderators, I informed him I would never go back there and I have not. I would hate to have to give up the ZR-1 group after forty years of involvement. --Bob

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Re: Thou shalt not close!
 

Cliff, I responded to that post, stated that I believed we had a misunderstanding/miscommunication and stated I would call you this week to which you then responded, "No need to call....everything is fine". I thought that matter was 'closed'.

Yet for the past several days, you have continued to edit your posts in that thread multiple times over which has dramatically changed the messaging and had got other members needlessly riled up.

Based on your continued edits and posts regarding this matter, it would seem that everything is not fine as far as you are concerned. My offer for a phone call still stands.

Re: Thou shalt not edit!
 

Zack, we appreciate all the work you are doing, but that is the wrong answer. Why not just respond directly to the issues raised by Marty and Dynomite? As Marty noted, In all the years I have been on this forum, I really don't remember many, if any, posts which were so bad they were deleted or edited by a moderator. I don't know what post to which Marty is referring (because it was deleted) but, as Marty noted:

The response from a member should not have been deleted, nor the thread closed.

This has to stop.

His response, which I read before it was deleted, did not involve any system related problem, but rather it detailed the actual editing of a members post.

There was no valid reason to delete it or to close the thread.

If that is the case, as Marty says, why not just reinstate the deleted post? And certainly it deserves a proper mature response.All of us here have a very high level of respect for Marty and he deserves a direct explanation as to what you are doing in this case. And while I am sure everyone appreciates your offer to talk on the phone, I suspect for many of us (certainly me) a phone call is not always convenient and discussing things here on the forum should work fine and make sure everything is out in the open as befitting this group. --Bob

Re: Thou shalt not edit!
 

The post which was deleted did not even involve Marty. The post which was deleted not only contained information that was not true, it added fuel to a fire that shouldn't have been burning in the first place.

Frankly, the creation and continuation of this thread is exactly the negativity and unhelpfulness I am talking about. None of it is in anyway related to helping one another with our ZR-1s and none of it is helping to improve the content of this Forum.

If a new person was to join our Forum in the past week or so, the majority of what they would see up top is negativity from about 5 Members when we have over 500. That's not a fair representation of our community or a good look.

I'll say it again, if any one person has enough time on their hands to complain and be overtly negative in an open forum, then that person has enough time to help us with the Forum in a positive manner. It's a choice, plain and simple.

In regards to phone calls, it takes far longer to go back and forth in a text based forum, chat, etc than it does to have a phone conversation. If someone has the time to chat back and forth, then they should have the time for a phone conversation.

Additionally, I admitted to my technical mistake this past week which temporarily "broke" some of the Forum's functionality for all users and Registry Members. No one was singled out and it was absolutely not intentional, it was a technical error I made when working in the back end. In the end however, we were able to improve some of the technical functions of the Forum for Registry Members. More tangible improvements are to come.

Re: Thou shalt not edit!
 

NO, don't go.

Re: Thou shalt not edit!
 

Thread linked below is another example of post-editing that should not occur.

George knew where his car for sale is located.... the "help" is not always helpful.

https://www.zr1.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35716

Thou shalt not edit posts more than once!
 

I guess this is myself ZBrink is talking about......but I have no clue what he means by "spin topic out of control" or "manipulate the conversation".....

Maybe if he can please explain to one of you so it can be explained to me.....sounds like ZBrink is talking about my effort to explain the technology involving the Serpentine Belt Tensioner for the ZR1/LT5 LT5 Belt Tensioners

I happened to have both ZR1/LT5 and L98 Belt Tensioners on the bench and do know how to install either of them and set them up on their respective LT5 or L98 Engines....:thumbsup:

I do know which way they rotate on the LT5 and L98 engines LT5 Belt Tensioners 😁😁

I do not and never have "spun topics out of control" or "manipulated conversations".......at least no one out of nearly 500,000 guys and gals on the other Forum who have viewed my Technical information Sticky on that Forum have ever complained about anything including Spun Topics or Manipulations 👍
LT5 Modifications/Rebuild Tricks

Ole ZBrink should prolly stay out of corvette technical discussions 😁😁
And Definitely Ole ZBrink should quit editing the Technical Discussions of others 👍

And....Quit with the threats of Post Closures or Post Deletions......Just do it (Delete the Post that is offensive) as I have suggested many times before.......
I will get the message which I have also said before :cheers:

Anything in underlined red is a Clickable Link :thumbsup:

Thou shalt not Manipulate Conversations!
 

I could/might be banned on this Forum.....

That is no big deal with me 👍