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Is ilyas also the same guy who was nuking it for out-of-order deletions, or was that jblack? I am zilching it because someone deleted a thread I was (still) participating in, while leaving the threads below it be. Or perhaps what I should do is whine to the politburo about how my posts are getting victimized, like someone suggested yesterday. Btw, please sign your name, so we can try your approach on your posts. I am merely interpreting a deletion of a thread as a sign that the entire section of the motd past that point has gotten stale and needs garbage-collected. People who perform the legitimate public service of cleaning up old threads tend to only deal with the bottom that isn't getting modified anymore. I'd try to figure out why everyone thinks I'm a jackass. You seem to have no unkind words for the anonymous jackasses who fuck up motd threads, which I find interesting. I am not sure how fair it is to punish disinterested third-parties. I don't know of another way to 'encourage' certain motd idiots to not delete stuff out of order. The same logic that would justify the punishment of others could lead to all kinds of unpleasant applications. I don't think the inability to punish just the delete would justify the punishment of all. I have no way of punishing the deleters even if I knew who they all were. You are right, if you take what I am doing to its logical conclusion, the motd becomes extremely unpleasant. Or, to phrase it another way "if you fuck up someone's posts, you are really hurting the motd as a whole -- don't do it." Having done that, you could either selectively punish that person by deleting his subsequent posts, or you can at least hold his name up to public scrutiny. But public scrutiny will not encourage anybody to change their behavior (it's certainly not encouraging me), and I have no desire to maintain an error-prone script to try to determine who posts what, and selectively delete a wrong person's post. It occurs to me this argument is already occupying too much space here, on the motd. If you have something constructive to add to address the problem of selective deletions, just email me and I ll be happy to discuss more. To people deleting active threads: please don't do it, you aren't helping anyone. here's what works: purge a unix-related thread for every politics thread they kill. This is the only thing these fuckers understand, and it works. The typical politics purger is some dick who wants the whole motd to be a little unix nerd forum where we all talk about drivers all day.
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