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Fair point.
I'll be more restrained in future.
The reason I deleted content is because it was quite inflammatory and I didn't want it left there reflecting against the community (which it definitely was doing as his trolling gave rise to the quoted posts from this forum that appeared in the press in the last week).
Not having a nuanced means to say "delete only that stuff and it's impact" I used the same method as banning spammers, which nukes the content.
In future I'll attempt to only remote impactful trolling and to ban the account, and not to remove any other content.
Velocio
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No I didn't but there's nothing to say other people aren't using PMs to sort stuff out unrelated to Classifieds. Seems excessive and veers too far into unnecessary censorship in my mind but it's your hammer...