Does the SDMB now delete whole threads? (No but we do cornfield sock and troll threads)

[Atamasama]

@Whack-a-Mole

I thought a golden rule at the SDMB was threads do not get deleted except for special circumstances (like someone making an account to advertise something).

Nope. This has gone on for a long time.

Why was a thread deleted? {Cornfielded as Sock Op}

See subject line. The subject matter was a little offbeat, but I didn’t see anything that clearly deserved cornfielding.

What happened to the thread abour a hurricane being manmade?

I was reading it and it just disappeared.

Capitalism thread disappeared?

Did I see a thread this morning on capitalism that later disappeared? The only poster I recall from the short thread was Ulfrieda, but can’t locate the thread or their post now. Operator error–that is, me–or something else?

Been discussed a lot.

Lest you think this is something new…

Deleted thread, possibly?

I had posted to Tom Waits Patiently’s thread “I am Rude” in MPSIMS. A few minutes later, I got an e-mail notification that someone had replied. I clicked on the link, and I was told that there was an error displaying the link. Thinking it was just a problem with Hotmail, I went to MPSIMS and searched for the thread. I couldn’t find it. Was this thread deleted? This possibility struck me as weird, because I couldn’t find anything remotely offensive about the thread (unless TWP was a known troll/s…

I mean, two and a half decades is quite a bit of precedence I’d think.