Fair Trade

[Kayleigh McMillan]

It's sad that thread is removed in my opinion as it became a community effort and was on many parts very educational.
Okay it was not drama free but what is in life.
I feel a valuable documentation I think all of us learned from and some of us contributed to is destroyed and that is sad for future reference.
It gives to think why discussing things at all if the one who starts a thread has the right to delete a community effort as a whole.
But by how this forum is constructed this is possible and this happened.
I feel this should not be possible when something becomes clearly a community effort and I for one feel it is a waste of time, emotions and efforts to even contribute to a discussion.
I have filed a ticket about this and questioned if it should be possible to just delete such as a single individual and they felt it is the intitial poster's full right to delete all the efforts we brought just like that.
I feel very sorry for freedom of speech here no matter what "side" we were standing we were in this together and our community is one big family which cares and that was what I learned from the thread.

EDIT
I like to clarify I question the functionality of these forums for one being able to delete a complete thread over blaming this person in specific i understand where she came from when she decided to do this and in the current forum format she can do that and with that comes she has the right to do that.
Because efforts of people and well chosen words are gone and I feel that is a technical mistake by how these forums are constructed and it makes me wonder why we should discuss things and take the time to do so at all not only in this specific topic.
In fact I deleted quite some threads I created myself currently just because I can with this I question should that be possible when more than one person contributed to a thread?
This was one of those threads worth to read back when the dust was settled down so we could read what was reallly written over what we in that specific emotion thought was written.
Sadly we only have what we thought was written left and no reference what so ever because I still think the content was valuable if you take away the emotions of the moment.
I understand simple adverticement threads and such clearly can be removed by the OP but maybe there should come a point in such situation as with the "Protocol ???" thread a moderator takes ownership of that thread due to community relevance.
This gives the intial first poster still all rights to remove and edit posts or even delete the first one without taking away everything.