Mods shouldn't feel the need to delete their own posts responding to someone right before they get banned, nor delete the thread which prompted them to ban someone. There are exceptions to this, of course (for example someone making stalker-ish posts) but in general there's no need for this. Ultimately it is the mod team's decision to ban someone and no amount of whining from the boards will magically reverse that. So they shouldn't feel threatened by their own posts or someone else's thread questioning their moderating ability. They should be able to ban someone without feeling like the aforementioned posts incriminate them. If they DON'T incriminate them then there's even less of a reason to delete them.
Like Snake, I'm not saying Liz's ban was undeserved. I just think it was handled very poorly. A mod deleting their own posts looks bad. I'm sure Fen's posts in response to Liz yesterday were fine, but since he deleted them NPF has no way of knowing that. I have not known any other mods to do that (I have a poor memory so feel free to correct me) and I don't think it reflects well on the moderation team.
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