Ramsey500,
No, I am not new at moderating, I am one of the first that Cheryl asked to help her about a year ago. We get complaints if we do our job and we get complaints when we don't. As a mod, part of our job is to read "guest" postings before they are allowed to be seen. An anonymous poster that doesn't want to officially join this community posted the full first and last name of a private individual without their permission, so I changed it. Yes, I know about initials and first names, that is alright. I do read most of the posts in this forum, since a lot of them are made anonymously and have to be validated through the Control Panel first. brown4life17 doesn't come across as being hostile to anyone in what was deleted, it is just policy not to list full names like that. Perhaps I should have left the first name or initials. If brown4life17 wants to try again, I will do that. If he or she knows this person in the workplace and wants to acknowledge them there, or join and use the PM feature, then fine. More times than not, when people guess at the identity of another person online, they are wrong. So with all respect, it was not my "set of values" that led me to do this.
No, I am not new at moderating, I am one of the first that Cheryl asked to help her about a year ago. We get complaints if we do our job and we get complaints when we don't. As a mod, part of our job is to read "guest" postings before they are allowed to be seen. An anonymous poster that doesn't want to officially join this community posted the full first and last name of a private individual without their permission, so I changed it. Yes, I know about initials and first names, that is alright. I do read most of the posts in this forum, since a lot of them are made anonymously and have to be validated through the Control Panel first. brown4life17 doesn't come across as being hostile to anyone in what was deleted, it is just policy not to list full names like that. Perhaps I should have left the first name or initials. If brown4life17 wants to try again, I will do that. If he or she knows this person in the workplace and wants to acknowledge them there, or join and use the PM feature, then fine. More times than not, when people guess at the identity of another person online, they are wrong. So with all respect, it was not my "set of values" that led me to do this.