Unprofessional behavior and Moderation - Mods , please read

Hi- this concerns moderation of a thread that included a person that was sabotaging an auction for a site,
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=311409

The site is an established PR5 with traffic and revenue, and some kid has posted a 15$ bid and said that why it's worth more is beyond him, while the seller has already pointed out a target price of XXX-XXXX .
This is unprofessional and childish, and no one would like such a person coming to their thread to ruin an auction .

After claiming that his comments are damaging , and are "unprofessional, idiotic, and mean", the person gave me a red rep . (which is acceptable, considering his mentality), while the person in charge of the sale thanked me. (so effectively, he agreed that I was not hurting his auction thread)

What happened next was quite amazing - the red Rep I received somehow disappeared, both my and the thread's starters comments were deleted, and I got an infraction, while the person that left a childish and clearly auction-sabotaging comment didn't have even his comment edited to make it more appropriate and not sabotage the seller's chances.

I would really like to know who is the Moderator that decided to edit out comments by the seller inside his own thread, and not remove unprofessional and childish comments from a person that was driving off potential buyers.

 

I hope you read Robs new rule, I would edit your post below before he views it

 

I do not know who Rob is
What is the rule ?

 

Here we go again. I don't think Rob is going to be too please - cue another infraction for complaining about infractions!

 

Erm - ... I was not complaining about my infraction. I mentioned it at the top, but this certainly isn't the issue .
The problematic part remains the fact that a person tried to ruin an auction thread (and succeeded, since the seller now takes bids only on sitepoint) , got a response from me, the thread starter backed up my response , but the outcome was that his and mine comments were deleted, while the auction-sabotaging mean and clearly irrelevant posts remained unedited.

 

Correct . Absolutely correct.
But considering the fact that this is how a sales threads look on DP
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=310324

I was sure that there isn't much Moderation of sales threads going on, and the first time I actually saw one , was today , and it was a mighty wrong one.

And I would really like to know, who and why would moderate a discussion in such a way.

 

Let it drop - you got an infraction, big deal. If you've been well-behaved you've still got 9 more to go until you get banned. Keep your head below the parapet and move on.

 

This isn't about infractions.
And yes, i do have 9 more to go because I AM well behaved.
This is a community, and I was being helpful by aiding a person with an auction that got the wrong kind of attention from some kid that tried to ruin it (and bidding 15$ on an established site).
And I would realy like to understand the logic behind the moderation that took place at that thread.

P.S Someone Red-repped me with "just STFU" on this thread. Awesome.

 

I fully agree with you OP in regards to the Site Sale's section being more like a "free for all" rather then anything resembling a somewhat professional venue.

Here's a good example of my thread the other day, the user "aspidov" should know better considering his join date.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2916236

Posting in a site sale thread just to say "Who searches for that keyword anyway" certainly doesn't fall in to Smyrl's list of acceptable reasons to post and neither does being called a "prick" by Linkbait.

Yes i was short and ubrupt, but i'm sick to death of having sales threads being hijacked. I've got 52 glowing iTrader comments from the people i have done business with. Maybe i'm just used to years of selling sites on WHT, Sitepoint etc.

Sorry i can't comment on your infraction, but i definately know where your coming from.