The Rx.com software keeps a record of all moderator deletes. There are two kinds soft delete which leaves the post there but only mods can see it and hard delete which basically nukes the post off the data base.
A record of a soft delete looks like this:
87616 Journeyman 10:02, 21st Sep 2007 Post by goodcall Soft Deleted Thread: [Week 3 Lines] Forum: [Journeyman’s 4th Annual ‘Pick 4’ NFL Post Up Contest]
A hard delete or nuke looks like this:
88135 Journeyman 11:15, 29th Sep 2007 Thread Removed Thread: [Drugstore Products for Free AR] Forum: [Health and Fitness Room]
The key word is REMOVED meaning it is gone, and no one, moderator, administrator, poster, lurker or anyone can see what the post used to say.
In the early summer of 2005 here is what Journeyman's moderator log contained, (there are a lot of normal mod functions also as I only extracted actions when JM moderated his own posts) as you can see it is Journeyman hard removing posts by Journeyman mostly late at night after results were in. The time for example in the first one is 00:13 which means 13 minutes after midnight Eastern time. Sometime he removed posts early in the morning like the second entry at 8:27AM Eastern.
As the summer wore on you can see that most of the nukes were from his own MLB thread that he was keeping his YTD baseball record in. Now he will claim all kinds of excuses like he wanted to make the thread neeter or he double posted whatever, but you can do all that by editing or soft deleting and not nuking a post for all eternity.
There is only one reason to hard delete a post and that is to destroy completey what a post contained so no one can ever tell it even existed unless you made a copy or you have access to the mod log like I do and Pete used to.
The other strange thing is there is no need for a mod to moderate himself so much. This is what General Pete tried to tell me but I would not listen. My only excuse was I was brand new on the job at the time (started as head mod around 20 June 2005). He even deleted his best bet posts in the Board Room at times which was a tradition back then to post your best bet for the other mods to play if they wanted to.
You tell me why would a moderator delete his own posts late at night or early in the morning so much in his own baseball picks thread...
15363 Journeyman 00:13, 16th Mar 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Your Daily Best Bet? (Tues)]
15399 Journeyman 08:27, 17th Mar 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Your Daily Best Bet ? (Thur)]
15511 Journeyman 01:07, 25th Mar 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Illinois vs Arizona or Oklahoma State- What will the line be?]
15437 Journeyman 11:32, 18th Mar 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [ODU VS. MICHIGAN STATE (How They Match Up And Who Will Cover)...]
15784 Journeyman 11:13, 4th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Board Room Members Best Bets 4/4]
16076 Journeyman 23:35, 16th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Padres/Dodgers O/U 8 is available at Hollywood...]
16045 Journeyman 21:10, 14th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Winner of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Detroit or Miami?]
16246 Journeyman 18:37, 25th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Board Room Members Best Bets 4/24]
16337 Journeyman 22:14, 28th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Choptalk]
16309 Journeyman 21:39, 27th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16344 Journeyman 10:05, 29th Apr 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16402 Journeyman 18:30, 1st May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16548 Journeyman 15:55, 9th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16580 Journeyman 16:17, 10th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [JimFiestSux UP over 15 units on your favorite capper from the Rx!!]
16569 Journeyman 23:20, 9th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16568 Journeyman 23:19, 9th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16565 Journeyman 22:49, 9th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16644 Journeyman 22:40, 12th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
16695 Journeyman 21:09, 15th May 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
17368 Journeyman 12:32, 11th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Board Room Members Best Bets 6/11]
17583 Journeyman 07:51, 16th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
17432 Journeyman 00:45, 14th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Board Room Members Best Bets 6/13]
17431 Journeyman 00:41, 14th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
17420 Journeyman 22:08, 13th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
17380 Journeyman 22:04, 11th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [SI Picks Arizona Cardinals To Win NFC West]
17696 Journeyman 20:53, 20th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Game 5 WWTS Contest and Standings]
17625 Journeyman 23:58, 19th Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
17766 Journeyman 18:58, 23rd Jun 2005 Post by Journeyman Removed Thread: [Journeyman 2005 MLB]
You notice it stops around June 23rd which is when a couple of posters said they saw some of Journeyman's picks the day before but they were now gone now and that started the trouble over the deletions.
I know Journeyman will flip out when he sees this and start saying more shit about me at EOG and making excuses etc. but the software does not lie. These are cut and pasted directly from Journeyman's moderator log record that goes back to 2004 when we changed over to VBulletin software.
You do the math.
wil.