Talk:Contributing

Two questions now
Hi Hi Originally I only had one question - which I'll get to in due course, I guess - but after clicking Discussion|View_History I have another one, viz: How on earth did deleting the old talk page (by way of housekeeping, apparently) improve Meta? How can I now tell whether or not my question has already been addressed? Isn't that precisely one of the main reasons why talk pages are so useful? -J CptRabid (talk) 09:36, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

OK, look: I despise Mark Zuckerberg. I'm proud to say that I've never, ever trusted him any further than I could comfortably excrete him - and these days I'd pretty much reserve a special place in hell for him, frankly.
 * Simply put, there were two sections, one was advertising a webinar and the other was as follows.
 * == Facebook ==
 * If we built a community of users on Facebook we access Facebook's tools for fundraising: https://www.facebook.com/fundraisers/
 * ^ The webinar was an even more advertisy version of this for something related to mariadb which has long become irrelevant. So, there was no content worth retaining, nor was it topical to what the page is supposed to be about. Laxer moderation is why the page even continued as long as it did, as the content sat awkwardly for some years. Procedurally it may have been better to simply blank it so the history was transparent (none of the content was extreme) but simply wiping a page that never did its job was sufficient as well. I hope this sheds some light, as well as my reply on the FAQ page (though that one may be better followed up by a more relevant volunteer). --Raidarr (talk) 12:23, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Nevertheless, writing "If we built a community of users on Facebook we access Facebook's tools for fundraising: https://www.facebook.com/fundraisers/" simply does not justify a page deletion that smacks of censorship because it is censorship and conveys to users that if you transgress here, or are thought to have done, or in fact just say something some admin doesn't think worth leaving in place, your transgression/suggestion/contribution will be memory-holed. So: just you get used to it, serf. -J CptRabid (talk) 21:31, 29 March 2022 (UTC)