We are wanting to book new year away but can't seem to find a site with a PUB on. we don't want to travel too far, just a couple of hours away, please help! as many recommendations as possible thanks, yorkie puds x
Yes, well spotted......my post was deleted!! OK, so I am telling people about New Years Eve......but in my defence I am only responding to a (potential) customer's general enquiry. This is called "being helpful". Sorry if I've offended the Moderator.I think the post removed, would be the one saying Plassey would be open over the New Year. Looks like it was deleted due to advertising. The mind boggles at the censorship, still you need to pay to advertise !!!!!!!!!
Hello Parksy,Hello John
After I had deleted your post Yorkie Puds asked which post was deleted and why.
I attempted to briefly offer an explanation in which I mentioned that you were being helpful to forum members but the actual wording of the post, complete with telephone number etc did amount to an actual advert which I'm sorry to say isn't alowed under the terms of forum etiquette.
I had in fact left your post on the forum for some time and I did not delete it until approximately 7.40 p.m. on 3rd September which is two full days after it first appeared on the forum. This would hopefully have given those interested chance to see and copy the details that you provided. I did this in an attempt to be flexible and to treat your post in the spirit in which I'm sure that it was meant.
I know that on the post it is written 1st Sept. 3.46pm but that is the time that you posted and not the time that I deleted.
As a matter of fact I or my fellow Moderators have no contact with PCv advertising team and are not actually employed by Haymarket or anyone else in regard of this forum. We're caravanners who voluntarily undertake the task of Moderating so that this forum can operate.
While I personally applaud the fact that you invest a considerable amount of money into a 'hobby' that I and other forum members share surely you will concede that even if I had been aware of this fact I would be entering very murky waters indeed if I or my colleagues allowed this to influence any decision that we may take for good or for ill.
Had your post contained simply the name of your park and pointed interested members in the direction of your advertising material or simply given an email address so that further details could be obtained I would have let your post stand provided that it drew no adverse criticism from forum members.
Your post actually took the form of an advert,I accept that this was probably unintentional on your part.
If I'd have let it go then I'd have been forced to let other 'advertising' posts go by those who are perhaps not as scrupulous as yourself. The precedent would be well and truly set and then this forum would have come under fire from members who object to advertisers breaking the rules.
After the deletion another member criticised my decision and also accused me of inconsistency.
In doing this he re posted the details that I'd already deleted which I then had to edit.
This is why I copied and pasted forum etiquette into this thread.
I could have gone into long explanations for my actions although I'm not obliged to do so. I had already dealt with a similar situation on another thread
http://www.practicalcaravan.com/newforums/fm_messages.asp?FO=6&FM=414947
so rather than repeat it all I simply pasted the rules for all to see to save further dispute and argument.
I can't pretend that every decision that I make as a forum Moderator is the correct one but I have to 'play it as I see it' with a straight bat and apply the rules of the forum in so far as I'm able to all members of this forum.
There is absolutely no reason why your later post would not stay on the forum because it doesn't break any forum rules.
No Moderator of this forum would delete or alter a post just because it contained criticism of us and in fact I'm always happy to attempt to give reasons behind any decision that I make so your points are most welcome.
Regards
Parksy