Well we've got to the heart of the matter now, and that is where to draw the line. We appear to agree on deleting trolls and duplicates. I imagine we might agree on deleting based on author retractions, gratuitous obscenities and I suppose illegal material that could get vroom in trouble (though neither of us mentioned these yet). On the other side, I believe we both agree on keeping post that are considered for negative reputation alone (I really would like to have kept the NodeReaper out of Worst Nodes, as a lot of interesting Monastery history has been whitewashed there).

The only remaining grey area I can think of now is thank-yous with no other content (i.e. no summary). You are quite correct that deleting them has hardly any measurable effect, not unlike picking the cat-hair off my pants at work, but I do both simply because I notice the results, and their has not been an objection to either habit before now. We're left with an argument over taste, and that would serve no useful purpose (come to think of it this node hasn't served any useful purpose either, but I've gotten this far so I'll leave it).

Perhaps now that trusted editors have been appointed, the whole mechanism of Nodes To Consider should be superseded anyway.

Update: Spelled vroom the way he does, instead of the way I think of his responsiveness (zoom) (thanks dws ;-)

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser