Artist,

Thank you again for the request which is evolving into, what I think, a good solution to thread management and understanding for the readers.

We do have a concern about thread integrity and history...people changing history during a tiff, etc. It was still happening, but in a different form, yes? History was being changed with little to no awareness to the reader.

We don't always see these things and having them pointed out constructively only helps this site be what we all need (for the most part and realistically).

Based on my understanding of your request, and the need for thread integrity and history, it's been agreed that future mod/admin procedure when removing an entire post from an active thread, will include:

Leaving the frame of the post needing deleted in its entirety (time, username, etc.) and leaving a note stating either 1) This post has been removed per guidelines; or 2) This post has been removed at the request of the poster.

This way anyone reading will know why a thread has potentially changed direction, understand the following post appearing to "come from nowhere", etc.

When we make a simple edit without taking the entire body, there will still just be the edit remark in the bottom of the post.

The one time we won't do this practice is if the post is the first post in a new thread and there have yet to be responses. In that case we'll just move the entire thread if inappropriate.

It's not often that we remove an entire post. We usually try to edit, after first asking the poster to *if they're online*. However, the times we do remove the entire body is usually when editing would completely change the context, it would leave it chopped up or confusing to read, or there's really nothing there to leave that is within guidelines. Again, in this instance, we'll leave a *note*.

I hope that helps with understanding threads and knowing what you're reading is accurate historically.

With respect,

KD