Cleaning and gleaning the nailed threads, What would have me do, if anything? Options

[Pat Garvey]

In light of the nearly constant carping from ONE particular member to "cull the heard" of some nailed section(s) posts, I ask several questions:

1. Are there too many posts/threads that should be un-nailed?
2. Who should decide if they are inappropriate to the topic?
3. If, after deemed inappropriate to the thread/forum, should they me simply deleted? Should they be moved to some sort of limbo for aperiod of time before deletion?
4. Should they just be sent to the "limbo" category forever?
5. If sent to "limbo", should the posts be left there indefinitely? There are many anomolies to the early production 914's. These are old cars. Production of the early ones was filled with on-the-spot changes.
6. Many other questions........

Look, I'm just trying to do my job here. I do not know everything about every model produced. I will NOT be the judge of every post. I "moderate". That's all.

In the rare occasion that something is inappropiate I have moved threads.

Last thing I want is for my buds to be p_ssed off at me for my lack of knowledge of every 914 ever produced, in any iteration. Again, my job is to MODERATE.

Guidance please!
Pat

[Tom_T]

OK Pat, 3 hours later I've gone through all of my posts in the various O&H nailed threads & marked those which an Admin/Mod can remove completely as: "EDITED - DELETE" and trimmed down a few others with editing.

However, I did leave in posts dealing with clarifications on the topic at hand, adding information to the subject (e.g.: factory spec docs., etc.), and sources for current replacement tires, & Concours acceptance, etc. Paul & some others probably still won't be satisfied with that.

I feel that these nailed threads should not only give information on what WAS original 35-40 years ago, but also about what IS accepted now & how to get there or as close as possible TODAY with available tires, finishes, etc.

Now that SirAndy has increased the size of pix we can post, while I was doing the editing out, I also went in at nailed "The few, the rare..." topic & added the pix of my buddy Jerry's mostly original 71 914/4, with notes on where things are changed from strictly factory original, as you'd asked me to a long time ago (last year).

If you or anyone else sees any other changes from original which I may have omitted, just send me a PM about it/them, and I'll add it or clarify for you by PM - so as to not clutter up that topic any more than necessary.

Pat - a thought - maybe the best idea would be to just ask others to do what I did, and edit out their chit-chat & superfluous posts themselves, which then you or an Admin can delete completely. AFAIK the original poster cannot completely delete their own posts, otherwise I would've done that for you as well.