I think you need to read Items 2 & 3 of the A.U.P.

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* If you are dissatisfied with their response then you should contact the Admin Team as detailed below.


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Thing is, here, what actually did happen to Rob_Wire's thread?

I feel like Jeremy Paxman when questioning Michael Howard.

All I want to know is - where did it go, and why? If someone broke the all-hallowed AUP, then fine, just please let us know when threads are deleted.

I think I'm cracking up at the best of times....

Who's put 10p in 71 today?

Ok to put it simply, the thread was deleted because the Admins (Owners of the site) have asked the mods to delete posts which advertise the BBC as they do not pay for advertising.

If you look down the right hand side of the page there are a number of advertisers one of which is real radio who pay to advertise with a banner and also allows them to advertsie their shows in topics.

If the BBC are constantly allowed to advertise free of charge then Real Radio might as well and all the other advertisers and then the site would close because the advertisers help to pay the bills associated with running the site.

As for the Moderators, I chose them. I am a moderator because I took the site over when Neil who did a sterling job packed in though I have more than realised why he did.

As we have said many times before, stay within the AUP and you won't ever have a problem with the mods please don't argue or question there judgement or that will get you banned as well.

The mods do a job that is required to make sure that the site is first of all within the law and a reasonable place to discuss the wolves though I sometimes wonder how that was ever possible.

We don't need to tell you when a thread is deleted, we delete them because we have reason to it's as simple as that.

All this would end up with is the site being full of thread deleted topics.