Administrative rant and the re-writing of history

Jeesh, don't check out LJ for a weekend and you have no idea what's going on.

(I was building a computer desk, okay? It's five feet long and two and a half feet deep and it's frickin' huge and I love it and it took me all weekend so my computer was unplugged and in the corner out of the way the whole time.)

So what the heck erupted on sv_icons while I was away? The thread in question seems to have been deleted, which pisses me off no end. My feeling is: if it's your personal journal, go ahead and revise all you want. Delete any comments you've made in other journals. But an entry into a community becomes part of its history -- good, bad or indifferent. And removing an entry erases part of that history. It removes all the comments, too, which bothers me. If a tempest was stirred up, maybe it was something the community needed to address.

And yeah, it annoys me on ego grounds -- I created that community and feel proprietary toward it. Something happened and I can't see what it was; I can only read around it in other journals. I feel responsible for keeping sv_icons on a proper keel; if (speaking hypothetically) things ever got very contentous and abusive, I might have to exert admin privileges and I could not do that in a fair manner without all the facts.

(also posted in sv_icons)