User talk:Promethean/Xeno-RfB

I find it pretty disappointing that there are a number of editors who persist in removing this comment from a recent RfB. The removal of my comment is a strech to say the least because there is no applicable policy that permits users to remove other users comments from a voting platform such as RfB. There seem to be some editors who consider someone calling another user's actions "as good as Meatpuppetry" to be uncivil, but this is not the case because the WP:SOCK policy says "Consensus in many debates and discussions should ideally not be based upon number of votes, but upon policy-related points made by editors." - In this case echoing concerns of others says to me that the user doesn't feel strongly enough about it to write what his own concerns were and thus his vote is really an !vote and not contributing to valid discussion about the user, hence my comment. Further reading shows this is exactly what meatpuppets do. In no way was Mono called a meat puppet, however, his actions was as good as being one.

So, the removal of the comment was a stretch in the first place and Floquenbeam should have err'ed on the side of caution before removing it. Undoing other's edits is typically reserved for more uncivil remarks, in this case I should have at least been notified of the removal but this was not the case. Yes, the RfB in question is now archived, but to preserve the integrity of the archive the valid comment (removed by some trigger happy admin) should remain in it.

I not only stand by my comment, but I also stand by the commonly held belief that only outright insulting comments should be removed from voting platforms.