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why was the 'NASA announcement' thread deleted?

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  • 04-10-2013 11:18pm
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    gufnork
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    There was a thread linking to a site that detailed an announcement by NASA due to be made on Sunday in the Astronomy & Space forum. It's still linked to by Google but just leads to a message saying,

    'Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator'

    What happened? Are we censoring information now?
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Spear
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    I'd hazard because it wasn't an announcement from NASA, and was just some viral marketing campaign.


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    gufnork
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    Yes, but why not just lock the thread? Why the deletion?


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    Spear
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    You should ask the astronomy mods about that.

    But again I'd speculate that even in a locked state it would still be serving it's purpose of astro-turfing for that site. The alternative would be to edit out all the references to it, leaving the thread gutted and many of the posts meaningless.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Probably because if they locked it and left the links there, boards would still be contributing to a campaign they might not want to. It would be pointless to leave a thread there with nothing on it.


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    gufnork
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    Fair enough then. I just have a horror of deleting entire threads.


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    Dades
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    The thread subject was a nonsense and had no place in any self-respecting science forum.

    Better to purge it completely than taint a great forum with some third party's self promotion of their own wacko ideas. It wasn't censorship just housekeeping.


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