A question for folks who are or have been on the LJ abuse team

[xiphias]

Is there a process for challenging or appealing an LJ abuse team instruction?

A poster made a post in a community, which caused a great deal of discussion. Hundreds of comments worth, a lot of valuable back-and-forth stuff. As well as a great deal of humor and all sorts of other stuff.

The original poster wanted the post deleted, but the moderator explained that a post to a community belongs to the community, especially after people have started discussing it. The community is deliberately set up that way.

The original poster contacted the LJ abuse team and they instructed the moderator to delete the post by Friday.

Is there a way to appeal this? The post, as I see it, ought to stay up.

Comments

[ron_newman]

One possibiilty: save the whole thing to disk somewhere, reconstruct it in HTML, host the copy somewhere else and post a link to it in the community.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Hm. I don't know about appealing the LJ decision. I wonder if, as a compromise, the moderator could offer to delete the text of the post, substitute placeholder text ("This post removed by request") and leave the comments?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

MOderators can delete, not modify.

[jenett]

The best way I know of is for the moderator to contact the Abuse team, and ask for managerial response + escalation. Something like "I would like to request a formal review of this decision, because of X, Y, and Z."

(Do not, under any circumstances, stage a general-write-in-campaign. It severely wastes everyone's time, and won't make things better.)

If there's anything in writing - community FAQ, userinfo, etc. that makes it very clear that the community considers posts to belong to the community, links to that would be very helpful.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Mind if I copy this over to the community?

[jerrymurray.livejournal.com]

I know whay the original poster wanted it deleted, as I had the same thing happen to me. I had posted a question on a "political" LJ group and was besieged with freplies which quickly denigrated down to spewing and name calling...over 100 post of this. So, I got a notice of every single message...I spent WAYY too much time having to try and deal with that crap...so I quietly deleted my original question.

I can see why he'd want to do it.

[hel]

This particular post, didn't end up name calling. The poster wants it deleted because their whole point in making the post in the first place was so they could delete comments they disagreed with, and now that they've been banned from the comm, they can't continue to do so, so they want the whole thing deleted. It's essentially sour grapes. If the issue were just the comment alerts, which they probably don't get anymore since they've been banned, they could just turn off the 'alert me to new comments' option, which they definitely are aware exists, as it was mentioned to them in another thread.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

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