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Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

It seems that you have lost track of the debate. I have made no such contradiction.

You said you didn't early in the post, than said you did later in it, I haven't lost track of the database.

Certainly. As soon as you show that the methods of forum moderating can and should be the same as those of the American justice system.

Moderators are basically the justice of the forums. It's more of a metaphor, and since the American Justice system works so well anyway (supposedly) we should try and base ourselves on it.

Do you have anything to offer besides repeated proclamations of your opinion? What you think is insignificant if you cannot back it up.

Do you have anything to offer besides "prove that it needs to be closed"? You idea of what needs proof is insignifigant if you cannot back it up.

The happiness of the users is not a factor in your vision of perfect moderation?

The individual is not as important as the whole. I am saying 1 theoretical user that wants to spam up a forum shouldn't matter if most people say it should be closed.

Please, stop and listen to yourself. I gave an example of how continued posting could be useful. At no point did I refer to this as 'piggybacking', nor did I imply that I associated it with the term.

Well it sure seemed like you did based on how you phrased it, and how you didn't say what you were giving an example of, making it look like it'd be an example of what you're responding to.

You should learn to identify a parody

How much space? A few kilobytes? Is this likely to make a significant difference? Enough to outweigh the users' desire to post?

I am not talkign harddrive space, I am talking letter space, that could mess up searcg results or other things, and have nothing to offer. And yes, that's enough to outweigh the spammer's want to post

And should mods delete all posts that they deem unworthy? Would that be a good way to make the users happier?

Not that they deem, what the overall majority of the users deem. That would be a good way to make users happier.

So therefore you're allowed to use it to mean whatever you want it to mean?

Slang terms mean whatever most people think it means. Since they aren't really words int he english langauge, if i made up a slang term called bobikning, if everyone used it meaning to eat, it would mean to eat. That's how slang works.