I would suggest that the reputation of the root node in this thread speaks to fairly wide community interest in allowing automatic removal of a very specific category of worthless node. It isn't always that easy to find an editor who is able to take time to help remove such nodes when it's needed.

It's all very well to say that people need to learn to 'police' themselves, and I agree, but mistakes do genuinely happen and it would be very cool to have another way to get rid of the junk without having to waste the valuable time of senior monks with trivial housekeeping tasks. We gotta computer - let's use it :)