Despite what my profile might say, I actively joined this forum a few days ago.
I posted a message in a thread full of other posts of the same type - asking for help in resolving an error with a procedure that is directly and closely related to the subject of the thread. For some reason, a mod (can't tell who, no way to contact them directly, so here we are) decided to delete my post(s) (there were 2 posted in a few-day interval, since I couldn't edit the 1st one to reduce clutter) asking for help. I broke no rules/guidelines, and as I already mentioned, half of posts in that thread are just people asking for help to resolve bugs/issues that pop up when using the method the thread was created for (so not [General Rule 1] off-topic at all), or discussing how to resolve them. There are also a bunch of screenshots of people's errors, so I'd argue I didn't break the [General Rule 13] either (because, I did have a single image of my error panel posted).
Not sure how much moderating tools the moderators have, but at least he could've told me to make a thread and delete my messages (though, I do wonder, is the policy to open a new thread for every question that pops up a viable strategy), or somehow moved/copied my post. Mind you, it's not like it was a big effort to write, but some human decency, am I right - or if nothing else, let's play by the rules, which if I've comprehended everything correctly, weren't broken (so why take a moderating action). Is there a "newcomers get thrown in a ditch" kind of rule I'm not aware of?
I posted a message in a thread full of other posts of the same type - asking for help in resolving an error with a procedure that is directly and closely related to the subject of the thread. For some reason, a mod (can't tell who, no way to contact them directly, so here we are) decided to delete my post(s) (there were 2 posted in a few-day interval, since I couldn't edit the 1st one to reduce clutter) asking for help. I broke no rules/guidelines, and as I already mentioned, half of posts in that thread are just people asking for help to resolve bugs/issues that pop up when using the method the thread was created for (so not [General Rule 1] off-topic at all), or discussing how to resolve them. There are also a bunch of screenshots of people's errors, so I'd argue I didn't break the [General Rule 13] either (because, I did have a single image of my error panel posted).
Not sure how much moderating tools the moderators have, but at least he could've told me to make a thread and delete my messages (though, I do wonder, is the policy to open a new thread for every question that pops up a viable strategy), or somehow moved/copied my post. Mind you, it's not like it was a big effort to write, but some human decency, am I right - or if nothing else, let's play by the rules, which if I've comprehended everything correctly, weren't broken (so why take a moderating action). Is there a "newcomers get thrown in a ditch" kind of rule I'm not aware of?
