Ok, honestly, I have to ask:
Is it so difficult to actually generate automated notifiations that actually tell you what happened? Or make the reasoning behind a moderator’s decision actually evident?
A few minutes ago I hat a notification, that a topic I posted in was “moved to another forum”.
Opening the PM however told me that the topic was in fact deleted entirely.
Note: I don’t mind if a topic gets deleted because it degraded to the point of personal insults or similar, but why does the notification message title state something different than the content?
A little while ago I had another of those little “hiccups” or whatever one might want to call them.
I got a notion that one of my topics was merged with another. That in itself isn’t my concern. If two topics are too similar, a merge actually is a good thing.
There were two things however, that made no sense in that case.
One: the “reason” given in the notification was “thread merged”. Which actually is just a blatant repeat of what already was stated in the notification subject. No actual reason given beyond those two words.
Maybe not surprising given the fact that the two topics had absolutely nothing in common whatsoever. One was about preferred playstyles and player attitudes and the other was about the legitimacy of selling dungeon paths for ingame gold.
What exactly might prompt two so dissimilar topics to be merged?
I might move on thin ice here criticising the moderators, but I’d still like to point out that the decisions of the moderators in some of the subforums seem a bit arbitrarily. And those are just the 2 cases in which I was personally affected because I had posted in those topics or actually created one of them.
The numberof weird mergings and deleted posts for no obvious reason is much longer than that, I’m afraid.
Edit: I might mention as well: I’m well aware that to tell or not tell us the reasoning behind a moderator’s decision is their prerogative and that we are not entitled to anything along those lines.
But giving these halfhearted notification messages just adds insult to injury in such a case. At least imho.
