Thread for when the moderators have let the power go to their heads

[ma0sm]

Have you noticed how it isn't as big a deal to have 50+ replies to a thread anymore?

Once upon a time, @deep-blue famously announced that getting 50+ replies was a sign that you were doing a good job in the thread you had created. However I create some absolutely garbage threads, proper disgusting stuff, yet they’ll often still clock over the 50 reply mark, maybe only just but somehow they do. Are people just less cautious about their replies nowadays? My theory is that since most of the trolly-types no longer post here, people aren’t as guarded about responding to a thread, b…

Granted, it would have been funny to lock it at 49 replies, but they didn’t. Instead, they deleted some of my replies and locked it.

• It’s political correctness gone mad.
• It’s even funnier this way.
• Leave the boards.

[colon_closed_bracket]

I lost my Leader privileges for a lot less than this…

[whiterussian]

Only deleted yours though, no-one else’s.

Would obviously never do this with a serious thread and will just as obviously restore every post if this has been an upsetting experience for you in any way

[whiterussian]

@ma0sm

they

…well

[ma0sm]

It’s all good, I thought it was very funny

Mine were the best ones though (apply this to all threads)

[jordan_229]

Shame! Shame! Shame!

[anon67149139]

Brilliant bants. WR for President 2020.

[Steved]

Aaaaahahahahaha, WR’s done you good and proper.