# Dear whomever deleted the "Limewire sucks!" thread or any other mod or administrator. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501 "2003-04-18T04:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/1 "2003-04-18T04:47:45Z")
Dear Mod, I’m glad you deleted that thread. Those bastards, asking for a proper Mac Filesharing application. They need to scrub their brains with steel wool for thinking such evil, evil things. It makes me shudder at their complete lack of morals or any idea of proper ethics. To those EVIL nasty people: What the fuck is wrong with you? Don’t you think of Lars Urich, sitting in his mansion, crying from hunger pangs because bastards like you are downloading his album rather than shelling out $15 fucking dollars? Fuck you. It’s a proven statistic that anyone who has ever downloaded anything, from a filing share application has either gone on to be heroin(or the equally evil Marijuana) or mysteriously contracted the black plague. [/end sarcasm] [begin seriousness] Why did you feel the need to delete it? File sharing does not equal stealing copyrigthed material. You’re hunting a phantom threat if you’re worried about a music company sueing you because someone told another person about an apllication that could in some possiblity get some of their material. It’s not like he was saying “OMG NEW LINKIN PARK HEY GUYZ WHERE CAN I GET EVIL MAC FILE SHARING APPLICATIONS??@”. I can understand you not wanting people to say “I wanna download this song, where’s a app I can use?”, although a company trying to sue every person and website that either advocates getting a MP3 or contains one is patently absurd. I realize that you guys run at a loss, and wish to not have legal action against a big corporation, but is deleting a thread like that neccesary? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/2 "2003-04-18T04:49:08Z")
Fuck, it’s **gone on to be heroin addicts**. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/3 "2003-04-18T04:52:11Z")
It’s not the threat of legal action in this instance. The CR, Cecil Adams, and some of us staff create copyrighted material, and we DON’T like to enable people to rip off other artists. While a file sharing program might be used for legit purposes, mostly they’re used to steal copyrighted material. It’s pretty much policy that such links will be deleted. Get over it. Lynn ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/4 "2003-04-18T04:58:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > **It’s pretty much policy that such links will be deleted.** I would be the one who posted the link in response to **Aslan2** ’s query. The whole copyright infringement thing didn’t even occur to me. :smack: Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/5 "2003-04-18T05:00:38Z")
Or was it not **Aslan2’s** query, but someone else’s? I can’t even remember. Either way, I’ll be sure not to post links like that in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/6 "2003-04-18T05:02:08Z")
I wasn’t the one who started it. Dunno who did start it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/7 "2003-04-18T05:04:28Z")
Heck, and I thought it was because one of the Admins/Mods foresaw the misuse of “whomever” in a thread title and did what needed to be done to make that happen. 😃 On the plus side, the OP is one of the few folks who actually uses “moral” to mean “a particular character trait” and not “morale.” 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/8 "2003-04-18T05:26:10Z")
I read that thread and composed an extraordinarily witty response, but when I hit “Submit”, I got sent to a scary looking page telling me that I’d attempted to break into the system or some such. It’s the world’s loss, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/9 "2003-04-18T05:30:20Z")
So did I. Most of it is above. I am so humble. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/10 "2003-04-18T05:35:27Z")
And here I am, wondering if I’ll ever find out if Limewire does, indeed, suck. Wah! ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/11 "2003-04-18T05:59:16Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > Lynn Bodoni- > While a file sharing program might be used for legit purposes, mostly they’re used to steal copyrighted material. > It’s pretty much policy that such links will be deleted. Get over it. > \*\* I disagree- that poster was not encouraging others to use LimeWire. In fact he was discouraging others from using it since the whole point of the thread was to complain about its mediocrity. I’m not saying it was a great thread, just that deleting it was probably overkill. Of course it’s easy to delete a thread and say whatever you want about it after… which is a luxury that the SDMB mods have, I guess. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/12 "2003-04-18T06:10:15Z")
And within two or three posts, someone else had posted a link to other alternative programs. Not to deflate your vast conspiracy or anything. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/13 "2003-04-18T06:10:52Z")
Thank you for deleting that thread. I appreciate it when you (unpaid) moderators and administrators do this work. ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/14 "2003-04-18T06:18:27Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > Smeghead- > And within two or three posts, someone else had posted a link to other alternative programs. Not to deflate your vast conspiracy or anything. \*\* Well is it fair to punish the OP because of other irresponsible posters? (not that it was my thread, BTW) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/15 "2003-04-18T06:18:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rockford \* > > * * * > > I disagree- that poster was not encouraging others to use LimeWire. In fact he was discouraging others from using it since the whole point of the thread was to complain about its mediocrity. I’m not saying it was a great thread, just that deleting it was probably overkill. Of course it’s easy to delete a thread and say whatever you want about it after… which is a luxury that the SDMB mods have, I guess. :rolleyes: \*\* With what exactly do you disagree? This? > [@](#): > > While a file sharing program might be used for legit purposes, mostly they’re used to steal copyrighted material. or this? > [@](#): > > It’s pretty much policy that such links will be deleted. I don’t get it. It’s part of the rules that you agreed to follow when you were given your account. The reason for and thinking behind this policy has been explained many, many times. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/16 "2003-04-18T06:21:12Z")
Ok, thank you for your explanation, **Lynn Bodoni.l** Before this point, I had only seen explanations stating that the Reader was afraid of lawsuit because of something like this, wich didn’t make much sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/17 "2003-04-18T06:24:26Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > hajario- > While a file sharing program might be used for legit purposes, mostly they’re used to steal copyrighted material. \*\* Fair enough… I was not aware that people had linked to other programs before. However, as I said, the entire thread should not have been deleted. (Although I guess I have been here long enough to know that threads do “disappear” without just cause often enough.) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/18 "2003-04-18T06:29:09Z")
I should have made it more clear that **Lynn** made the two statements that I quoted in my earlier post. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/19 "2003-04-18T06:33:01Z")
Oh. Don’t ban me please, that misquote was unintentional. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501/20 "2003-04-18T07:13:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rockford \* > > * * * > > Fair enough… I was not aware that people had linked to other programs before. However, as I said, the entire thread should not have been deleted. (Although I guess I have been here long enough to know that threads do “disappear” without just cause often enough.) \*\* If you’re interested in a Pit post which thrashed this policy to death some time ago, go [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=165082). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-whomever-deleted-the-limewire-sucks-thread-or-any-other-mod-or-administrator/169501.md?page=2)