Texbanker:
Not sure what messages you refer to. I can affirm that I did not delete them. There are four other moderators. There's also iHub at a higher level that can delete too. Some of the messages may have been duplicates.
You should note that the two biggest warnings before the halt were displayed here, including Cramer's negging of CCME on his after hours lightning round (the day before the halt and, astonishingly, about one trading hour before the halt) and a post by a rather followed long who warned shareholders to be particularly careful. As I recall, these were referenced on YMB and on iHub. Not to mention tons of negative statements found wherever shorts also posted. It's not like the "be careful with CCME" message lacked multiple forums for communication. It was all over the place.
The topic of pre-halt deletions was covered shortly after the halt. I was then a new Moderator and did not delete any messages except those where the deletion was obviously appropriate to those on both sides of the trade, requested by the poster, or the message was harassment/crude/obscene/woefully off topic. I redid the iBox and added all kinds of red flags prominently displayed. One of the first things I added was emphasis on a post by Rato on red flags and CCME. Further, I posted that iHub should require any iBox to afford a certain percentage of space for a short argument to be made, if anyone desires to do so in good faith. At the very least it could highlight the short interest, if any.
Incidentally, were you keeping a scrapbook you misplaced until today, and if so did you use a stopwatch to measure the one hour deletion timeframe?
-Andrew
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