The biggest issue with deleting content from posts and not the posts themselves is that pages still exist, visitors find them via search, and then feel jilted when they click and now end up on a page that has nothing on it. Not a big deal for a few pages, but it is substantial when you’re talking nearly 100 pages.

I find it ironic that me not reaching out email by email to authors on San Diego Blog was disturbing to you, yet you did not find it worthwhile to reach out to me to express your concern with ads or the impending deletion of all the content you contributed. Do note that when I took over and redesigned the site I asked for feedback. My hope was to generate enough revenue to hire a part time blogger to maintain the site and be active in the community. Sadly $2-3/day doesn’t accomplish that. So, as you can see we’ve released a new design and ads in there, in there more rightful places, and I’m spending $250/mo to pay a few writers to add decent content.

Further, if you simply didn’t want comments… you could have just changed the author or deleted your email from your user account.