DrugBuyers.Com: Why are some threads deleted?

Threads disappear at the sometimes mysterious discretion of the mods and Admin.

Often it's obvious why, like when you see a thread will devolve into a flame war and then disappear without a trace, good posts and bad. There doesn't seem to be a mechanism for deleting a few selectied, presumably offensive posts from an otherwise on-topic thread, the whole thing just goes in the trash.

Threads that duplicate the topic from an existing thread in the same forum will eventually be merged into one thread. This seems to take quite a while to happen, while the multiple mexrx threads churn happily along, side by side. Lots of posts disappear when threads are merged.

Threads sometimes disappear because they are in the wrong forum (a mexrx discussion in the domestic section for example). Instead of moving it to the right forum, an active thread in the wrong forum will often just get the axe.

Also there does seem to be a sort-of-secret list of forbidden topics; accidentaly posting about one of these guarantees thread deletion. Some of these topics you can guess by which words and names the autocensor removes when you are posting or sending PM's..no dirty words or discussing banned former DB members, for example! Recreational drug use, and the names of other web site message boards similar to this one, seem to be two of the main forbidden discussions.

Why are some threads deleted? Sometimes it's just a mystery. 99 percent of the time you will not get an explanation from the mod responsible for deleting a thread, even if you ask nicely.

Hope this helps