The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

The urge to save others was strong enough to overcome the wishes of the majority there?

No.

The site's rules take precedence over the wishes of the majority on any board, including that one.

And the site's rules do not and never will make "This poster is a basher" an acceptable reason for deleting a post that doesn't break the site's rules.

At least for free-zone boards. I'm a little fuzzy on just what the rules are for Premium boards. Ideally, I'd prefer that those boards can have bans at the whim of the moderator (just like on SI), but still have to use one of the selected valid reasons for deleting posts. It's why I went through all the trouble of integrating a dropdown in the deletion routine from which the moderator must select the reason for the deletion, and each of the deletion reasons is from the Terms of Use. And deleting posts that didn't break the TOU has always been grounds for post restoration and moderator removal.