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Originally Posted by PeleusSPR

I agree it's extra work for the moderation team, and within reason this must be controlled. However let's play devils advocate and say instead we simply deleted comments that were off topic? I'd say arguably the discussion about SEA eligibility wouldn't have happened where I think a fair few minds were changed on a perspective, arguably I wouldn't have posted the SEA esports growth thread which was along a similar theme, and we also wouldn't have had a lot of great idea's that were produced as a community. If, however the amount of work becomes unmanageable I think it's personally reasonably to put a mod note (doesn't even need to be an infraction) on the first post you think is derailing / the few afterwards and say please keep this thread on topic, create a new topic to discuss this issue.

To clarify what i meant by off topic was the "wheres roz" trolling which spanned over 10 posts. The SEA eligibility was considered a VERY valid discussion, and i rightly moved it its own thread! That was that i have been practicing all this while. It is very rare in the first place for posts to be deleted and when they are it is always for very valid reasons.

Originally Posted by PeleusSPR

but there has to be an acknowledgement that both parties need to want to discuss it in private, and if someone wants to air things publicly it will happen.

We did discuss it in private after i locked the thread. That was my exact intention, to lock the thread, notify the parties involved which was Rossi in this case that we should discuss it in private and that is what happened. If I left his reply that it would defeat the purpose of discussing it on private and i would get "the last word". When its deleted no1 gets the last word and its discussed privately. The thing is "discussing in private" doesn't mean I am obliged to agree to their terms, its more of so theres a better understanding from both sides and in the best case scenarios a compromise is reached on both ends. I did not agree to deth's terms "let me play or I am going to post this all over TL, reddit" or accept deth's apology (if he was truly sorry he would never have done what he did) and hence he made that post in TL in spite knowing very well the effect it could have on the SEA community.