Following the recent removal of a topic at the request of the original poster, together with all the other posts on that topic, I was wondering if thedebtisreal would like to carry out a small experiment and ask the moderators to remove the gold post and all the 5,889 subsequent posts.

It would be an interesting experiment.

We'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it, although as the forum rules state that "All content posted by you will become the property of housepricecrash.co.uk" we would have no problems with complying with such a request if we considered it to be the correct course of action.

All moderation decisions are made on an individual basis and are not reliant upon precedent.

The forum rules also state.... "Whilst we try to be as open as possible in the moderation of the forums, the moderators do not have the time to enter into public debate over the rights and wrongs of every moderating decision. Any posts questioning a moderators decision, or the forum rules, will be deleted".