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I didn’t realize that posts are deleted from the Chowhound message often. In response to this post about Spitz in Eagle Rock:

Chowhound’s Los Angeles Area Message Board: Re(1): Spitz in Eagle Rock - open yet?

I replied with a link to SoCalorie’s interview with Spitz’s founders. Shortly after that, my post was deleted. I wasn’t sneaky about it, I post there under my first name, I only link to la.foodblogging if it adds something to the conversation. I really thought that the interview would be interesting to people reading the thread.

Chowhound post deletion has been frequent enough that last week the moderators had to make a post defending their deletion policy. You can browse the site related message board to see the many instances of deletions.

I can sympathize that moderating a very open (as in, no registration required) message board would be a challenge. Chowhound does seem to lean a bit heavy on the delete button though.

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.