London riots thread deleted?

[king_nothing_]

Uh......wtf.

[TVTyrant]

My best bet is it turned into a shitfest or something.

[Rosco]

Wow. Woulda liked to have put some input in to that..

[king_nothing_]

My best bet is it turned into a shitfest or something.
Is it really too much to ask though for a mod to do two minutes worth of warning/editing/post deleting, rather than smash the delete thread button? My God. It's pretty sad that a mod would find it to be a good idea to completely delete a topic as important as that which had plenty of rational, respectable debate in it which was worth salvaging. I don't appreciate having a thread deleted that I invested my time in to respond to in a perfectly acceptable manner. If there were unacceptable posts in it, do your job and moderate them, don't delete the whole Goddamn thread.

[Donut]

i read through it earlier today. that thread was getting pretty fucking out of control tbqh.

[jcap]

The entire thread went to hell. It would have been impossible to defuse it without banning 90% of the people in there, so I got rid of the problem. Just start a new one.

[TVTyrant]

What time was it deleted? Would I be able to find it in a cache?

[king_nothing_]

Why would it be impossible to defuse? Issue infractions or delete the bad posts. Seems pretty simple.

Also, the last time I was in there, maybe 10 hours or so ago, I only remember one person (or perhaps two) making personal attacks. The rest seemed fine.

[jcap]

Infractions suck, they don't work. Practically every post was a bad post, so deleting the posts would have left the thread more incoherent than MW2's story.