I am sick and tired of all this squabbling about what moderators should and should not be allowed to do. I have been entangled into this a year ago, pressured from both sides to bin or not bin certain threads, and I am not willing to play into that game again.
As long as I moderate in the lounge, I have the right to make my own decisions as to what threads should and should not remain. Since there is no trolling spree going on right now, then I am going to follow Bedouin's libertarian policy, whereby all restrictive rules previously set by Refalm have been rescinded, and only spam should be deleted.
Accordingly, this thread stays in the lounge, as well as the other ones; as annoying as I find those complaints, they do not qualify as spam. But if anyone ever tries to spam the boards to deliberately harrass me or any other moderator, as has happened during the previous flame war, then I will treat all of those posts as spam, no questions asked, and relentlessly. I will not accept the excuse of criticising forum policies; if anyone wants to criticise a moderator, then he should report him to the administrator.
If anyone wants to understand where I'm coming from, then they should take a look at the dead thread zone. I wish to keep the good relations I currently enjoy, and I am not willing to revive a war with any forum member. I want to put an end to those disputes for good, if I can help it.