I notice a lot of folks simply edit their thread title and message asking mods to delete their posts. I'd like to recommend a better way of handling these deletion requests.
If you think a thread should be removed, please simply report the first post in the thread. There's a "Report" link at the bottom of every post. If you report the first post, requesting it be deleted, a moderator will look at it and determine whether it should be removed, or simply closed.
There are a few reasons why a thread might be better off closed, rather than completely removed.
First, some threads, especially those with pictures or details about specific cards, may be useful years from now. Someone may be looking for information about that card, or a picture of that card, and Google will help them find that post. All images uploaded as attachments here can be searched for in Google images. Folks searching for those images could find this site that way.
Second, it could actually hurt our ranking in Google if Google has a page indexed and the next time they crawl that page the title is "Deleted" and all the post content is gone.
Third, when we delete a thread, everyone who posted in that thread will see their post count decrease.
If you think a thread should be removed, please simply report the first post in the thread. There's a "Report" link at the bottom of every post. If you report the first post, requesting it be deleted, a moderator will look at it and determine whether it should be removed, or simply closed.
There are a few reasons why a thread might be better off closed, rather than completely removed.
First, some threads, especially those with pictures or details about specific cards, may be useful years from now. Someone may be looking for information about that card, or a picture of that card, and Google will help them find that post. All images uploaded as attachments here can be searched for in Google images. Folks searching for those images could find this site that way.
Second, it could actually hurt our ranking in Google if Google has a page indexed and the next time they crawl that page the title is "Deleted" and all the post content is gone.
Third, when we delete a thread, everyone who posted in that thread will see their post count decrease.