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[Les Bean]

As a new member, it's a minefield to know what is and isn't an acceptable topic - certainly this isn't married up with what was and wasn't on TV Forum - which is absolutely Rob's prerogative. But when you sign up, there are no guidelines presented and although there is a pinned "Forum Guidelines" post, only (up to) a third of the membership have viewed it. I've only just realised it had been updated this month as the forum indexes only show the date it was original posted (21st March) and it's not all that comprehensive.

For instance, I had a post flagged about Steve Dixon removing all his public / Sky branded social media accounts - it certainly doesn't go against any of the forums guidelines in the pinned post and I thought it was of interest since he, as one of the current longest serving members of the on-air presentation team, was a heavy poster of Sky News content and material.

Lets flip the discussion round.
If you were a high profile TV presenter with your own show ("Sky News with Les Bean" for example) , would you want people to constantly speculate on why you've purged your @SkyBean account on a TV Presentation discussion website somewhere? People on Twitter don't owe anybody else an explanation for why they close their account and speculation on why Presenter X closed his profile tend to wander off into the realms of fantasy given half a chance.

In any event, just because it doesn't go against the forum guidelines doesn't necessarily mean it can be posted. It doesn't explicitly say "don't post hardcore pornography" , but that doesn't mean I can post it. Many web forums have a "terms of use" thing which albeit probably not contractual in a law perspective, but that's what you agree to. It even says at the top "these rules are subject to change at any time", so you probably should look at them on occasion - not every day but semi-regularly.

Most web forums don't put things in sticky/pinned posts for fun or to make the forum look pretty. They are done for a reason and that reason is usually quite important, otherwise they wouldn't be sticky

Sorry Neil but you've completely missed the intended point of my post and with the greatest respect, my post wasn't aimed at you or for discussion - it was posted in a feedback forum for which the owner of the website has gratefully addressed.