A post was deleted because it contained NSFW images that were not under a cut. Also, those images (of genital surgery results) were posted without the permission of either the people depicted in the photos or the surgeons who performed the surgeries in question. This is both generally frowned upon and a violation of LJ TOS (for copyright issues). ( Read more... )

A piece o' spam was deleted.

A duplicate post was deleted at the OP's request.

A post was deleted for having disabled/screened comments. Since this is predominantly a discussion forum, and posts with no visible commenting allowed are obviously not conducive to discussion, you can't screen or disable comments on posts you put here. If you want to solicit information privately, please just include an email address on your ( ( Read more... )

I had to delete a post from yesterday for violating content rules. In 2006 it was decided that "milestone posts" were not relevant to community interests.  Even less relevant are personal journal entries.  We give posters of such material the opportunity to edit and change the posts to reflect community standards, but if these requests are ignored ( Read more... )

A post was deleted for being that Russian spam that has been going around. User lopatin_m has been banned.

A post was deleted because it was in violation of primarily rule 6 and arguably rules 1-5 and in my opinion rule 12 ( Read more... )

Apologies for the extreme delays (sickness, work, and life converged in a perfect storm this week), but the moderator elections have well and truly closed. Congratulations to homo_impetus, prettyboicris, savethewabbit, and xxweaponx, who will join me on the mod team. Thanks also to everyone who was willing to put their name in for this often tedious job ( Read more... )

A post was deleted for being (essentially) a fundraising post. Please remember that we don't allow personal donation asks or links to your personal donation pages. If you want advice/feedback on your donation website, there are numerous design communities to ask. Funding surgery is hard for most of us. We are always willing to give advice about ( Read more... )

I think that this community needs more than 3 mods. In the most recent big blow-out on language varanus brought this idea up as well.

I think with icarus_after stepping down that now is as good a time as any to introduce additional mods to the ranks ( Read more... )