Well, I hope that moderators on the forums are subject to some manner of
review and that moderators who go around deleting posts that shouldn't be
deleted will be relieved of those duties. But I'm not a moderator over
there so I really don't know.

All I can say is that 2138 posts later as far as I know none of mine have
been deleted (except for the one that *I* submitted for deletion myself).

I've certainly seen no evidence of posts being deleted for "propaganda"
reasons. And I can assure you that in my...14(?) years as an MVP I've never
once had anybody from Microsoft tell me what my opinion had to be or take
issue with anything I had to say - including those times when I've been
openly critical of Microsoft products or policies.

The only guidance along that line I've ever received is when we were briefed
on items that were not public knowledge yet and so we were reminded that the
content was restricted by our Non-Disclosure Agreement. In every case that
was a matter of a not-yet-released product or feature and it was simply a
matter of "You can't talk about this publicly right now."

In my opinion claims that the new forums are somehow going to be a
restricted space controlled by Microsoft marketing are just paranoid FUD.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
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Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
that was an individual's decision.


In addition, posts can and should be deleted IF they are racist, abusive
etc etc. Mine certainly was NOT.