Really Armok?
Really what?!? Did I commit some social blunder again?
Though Armok may be trolling. It's hard to tell with him.
I've never trolled these forums. Except a bit on VN when everyone was doing that. I've trolled the IRC channel a fair bit but that was after it was un-endorsed anyway I think and I stopped when they got to good at counter-trolling. I've said things I've later regreted, and admitedly a lot of very stupid things, but no deliberate trolling.
Armok is Armok, the optimistic type who always hates it when something in the forum is lost.
THIIIS! So very much this. I'm prety much against the concept of moderation through things like bans and deletions in general, they seem destructive and sad and intolerant and unnecessary cruel and unusual. Other, softer disincentives shuld be more than engouth to handle things.
I'm against this kind of thing on principle. It also helps that I quite enjoy Pathos occational antics.
While the thread may vanish, do the posts remain somewhere?
Toady should NOT delete this thread. Sure, it was started by somone who shouldn't have been able to do so, but since then it's been posted in by others and there's been some important discussion on moderation policy the deletion of which I atleast'd take as an attempt on censorship.
Even if he REALLY wants to make some kind of point about it, he can just delete pathos posts and leve the thread in place with "guest" as the thread starter. *I* shuldnt suffer by having *my* very legitimate posts deleted because he wants to punish somone else.