Deletion for Mods Options

[Simba]

I think you guys seriously need to revert back to the old rule, where "spam" topics are never deleted. I don't even care if it's mass spam, maybe there's a legit topic you might have accidentally deleted in the whole mess. I even remember back when I was a mod, forums like The Lounge once being gloriously painted in red because of the remains of closed mass spam topics, because we had to close each one.

DELETING IS MOD ABUSE

[DoubleJ]

I was told by trish and I saw it backstage somewhere that topics older than 06 could not be bumped. That is why I started clearing the lounge out...my mistake.

[superstitious]

I was told by trish and I saw it backstage somewhere that topics older than 06 could not be bumped. That is why I started clearing the lounge out...my mistake.

I understand the confusion but I've never been under the impression that even old bumped topics should be deleted. Closed perhaps but not deleted. If you ask me (not that anyone did lol), strict strict rules about bumping topics is pretty silly. The only time I've ever really taken issue with old topics being bumped is when the topic is entirely obsolete (for example, if someone is asking what they should wear for their 16th birthday party, which was two years ago and someone offering advice today. That just doesn't make any sense to me).

Like Dani, I was sort of brought up with the "don't delete unless it's ads" school of modding.

I like the 24 hour rule and have added it to the moderator guidelines (which need to be reviewed and updated a bit anyway).