"The first images were of very obese people in unflattering images. I have nothing against obese people, butgiven the nature of the posts they were being posted as comments or replies to...they were innapropriate, plus there was a complaint from the…"

"Ok now Luis Goncalvez is applying from that same ip address...I'd be inclined to approve this application and decline the sarge one,...and see how it goes."

"Sarge the King is currently applying for membership. similar email addresses from the same ip address have been suspended recently (today) for a) posting inappropriate images and b) spamming. I suspended the first time after looking at all the image…"

"2 more cents...
It still comes down to the site having rules that may or may not be applied equally to all postings, based on the content. this bad enough for the general membership, but if the moderators are unable to determine what should be or…"

"i approved some blogs today , even read that one in Spanish, but left it for someone else to approve or not. Hope I didn't accidentally approve it. I couldn't tell what it was about and it had no image...so I certainly didn't intend to approve it if…"

"Mark, yeah I follow the thread, just surprised me that a fair number of comments vanished from the thread."

"Did somebody delete some comments here?"

"Yeah, I didn't see the original post so I probably should just stay out of it, but if we are "relaxing" the moderation guidelines, we should also "relax" the site policies to reflect that and to provide better direction to moderators and other…"

"Someone should contact Kevin Hester and see if he wants to repost the blog."

"@Mark Harrison
I think we should let the original poster do the reposting, if he desires to do that.

@Joshua

I was backing you up Joshua...

And if that link was the post...I would have deleted it too. A direct link to a sellers store page? at…"

"@Joshua.

I guess it mattered in that another moderator had approved the blog, so there probably should have been some discussion here first.

First up though, yeah I don't think it would have mattered had it been deleted at the approval stage,…"

"Totally different topic...
Onthe Approve blog Posts page, I wonder if we could move the Delete link over on the right side as I find if I am working on my Playbook it is possible to click that link by accident. And as we know that is undoable."

"Ok, on the other side of the fence, had the blog already been approved? Probably should have asked that first...if so then yest, it should have been discussed here first."

"Darn, I had a whole spiel entered then got distracted and away it went.

Just wanted to say that...

a) our site policeies state


No discussion of military or weaponized applications of UAVs. This site is just about amateur and civilian use.
No…"