"Your post has been removed from the ActiveRain group...."

thomsinger I long for creative conversations not just noise on the internet less than a minute ago from web

To me the attitude "I don't delete anyone's post from any of my groups..if they take the time to post it....even if it is miscategorized,I still leave it."  is what makes ActiveRain noisy... 

IMHO you aren't respecting the readers of the group.  Or the group doesn't have readers.  That Tweet  came up right at the same time. 

People don't read splogs on the internet because they aren't readable. The ActiveRain groups that will allow spam read like splogs. 

If I go to read about ethics I don't want to read "listing posts, market reports, political and religious post, self promotion type posts."

Thanks all for the comments.

I just had an email from the Columbus newbie who I deleted this AM.  Really this post has nothing to do with her posts. I just added the:

"This morning there were two posts about another brokerage posted to the Real Living group. From someone from Columbus Ohio (Real Living is based in Columbus Ohio.)"

at the last minute as I moderated the Real Living Group.

The timing is wild...  she was also very gracious.  I wrote this Monday when an agent in Virginia apologized for posting things to the Real Living group.  I asked her permission to post the email that is here.

I once suggested "pop up's"  for the group's guidelines... It is sometimes hard to remember what the guidelines of a group are.  I have posted things to the "My Other Blog is..." group (which I moderate ) and deleted them more than once. 

How would I react if someone else deleted my post (so far I am the only one I am aware of who has deleted me...) I hope I would say "ouch, ouch, ouch...." and move along.  I hope I would read the guidelines and understand why I was deleted.

Brian... It is possible to delete posts by accident when moderating a group.  Or I have.  Most moderators are probably more coordinated and smarter than me but I have had to email a couple of people and ask them to repost to the group, that I deleted them accidently rushing through posts. 

The email from ActiveRain when deleted does say to contact the group's moderator "contact this person if you have any questions." 

My experience being contacted by people I have deleted from groups made me take a three week hiatus once... there are people who take it very personally.

Thanks all for the comments!

I think I am pretty lenient Frank.. partly because it is often hard to keep track of how many times someone has spammed a group with an inapprpriate post. I think I have a three times and you are out of the group rule but there was one woman who is spamming for a non real estate website (not a blog) but she spaced it out  and probably got a bunch of entries  posted serially into the "My Other Blog is..." group and up for awhile before I deleted them...  and I am not even 100% sure if I have banned her yet.  I could not tell you her name or what market she is in but when I see stuff from her I click to see if she is still doing it.  She is. I think she is just helping a local website with SEO.  It is a commercial website.  It seems like a lovely website, but it is not a blog, she is not blogging about it on another blog, she is posting AR blogs about a local business, doesn't fit the guideline, I put in place. 

I tried emailing people who posted inappropriate posts to a group for a few months.  It does NOT work...It is not worth it.

Randy I'm moaning about being removed from a group.

To me most  groups are for the readers.  If I go to Monika's group, I want to read about ethics. If I am reading recipes, jokes, listings,  market reports, political,  religious post, self promotion type posts... I will probably not come back to try to read about ethics.

To me an attitude like "I don't delete anyone's post from my groups.  If they take the time to post it, even if it is miscategorized,I will leave it." is spineless (depending on the group) and does a disservice to the readers.  I can't imagine as a reader going to a group like that and reading.  If I was posting to a group that was that weakly moderated I would (and do quit) because I can't read the group for that topic. 

I don't always post everything I write to as many groups as possible but I don't have a problem getting read. When groups started some people would post to a huge number of groups. To try to get read?

Lots of the groups are not moderated for reading they're  moderated as "clubs."  There is NOTHING wrong with that.  The Real Living group.. anyone who is affiiliated with Real Living can post anything they write there.  It is for us to support one another, read one another, get to know one another.  Maybe in the future that group will have to change and just be focused on Real Living news or maybe it will remain as is.

Hopefully people will get over being offended and read the guidelines of the groups that they are posting to.  Thanks all for the comments.