Thread:Auraestus/@comment-27097330-20160824163647/@comment-26347028-20160826220043

ChazmanianDevil wrote: I get that idea from the fact that users can remove and close things in their walls, but not anywhere else, implying they should be able to sue that ability.

A message wall is not a workplace, it's personal property. The forums are more similar to a workplace.

The fact is there's no reason for users to have these powers if not to police their own message walls. These powers are useless if they have to abide by the same standard as forums, because then Mods and Admins could just do it. Yes, they can do it on their own walls. But in the same way everyone else should be able to police theirs, but not abuse, why do they suddenly become different on their walls? In real life, it's too much effort to police people's homes, for too little gain, so it isn't done. But here, it's not a massive amount of effort and really just gives the Staff something to do. In the same way as alcohol would be illegal if it was discovered nowadays, but isn't due to how much effort it would be to stop it.

The point about unfair dismissal was my comparison to somewhere where it is worth the effort IRL to police. Here, it's hardly any effort and thus worth it, so the home really isn't a good comparison.

And you could say administrators are mostly redundant due to moderators doing their job for them. But what this is is making it so that intervention from the Staff shouldn't be necessary unless something serious is going down. And if something serious is, then they have the authority to intervene. But certainly randomly removing someone's messages or randomly banning someone from your Message Wall is very much annoying to the affected party and an inconvenience. In other terms, it's abuse. And since it's not a massive amount of effort to police, I don't see why abuse shouldn't be prevented.