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And the "here's what's happening" thread has devolved into a shitty GBS poster posting gifs of head lice. Some things never change.
 
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That probably means a mod wants the thread "gassed".

Business as usual.

Wait... why don't they just delete the spam posts and threadban the disruptive user? Because that would make a lot more sense than just locking it. Do you have to pay extra money to view gassed threads?
 
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Wait... why don't they just delete the spam posts and threadban the disruptive user? Because that would make a lot more sense than just locking it. Do you have to pay extra money to view gassed threads?

No, gassed threads go to the Comedy Gas Chamber, which is a subforum that I think is not even behind the paywall. Concepts like threadbanning don't exist, and posts are never deleted. In the worst case scenario on SA, a post will be blanked by a mod. In that case, the post will still exist and at the bottom the edited post will say "Somebody fucked around with this message at... [timestamp]" instead of "[username] fucked around with this message at...". If a message says "Somebody fucked around..." it means a mod has edited it in some way.

In extremely rare cases entire threads are deleted. In that case, you will get an error that says something like "Special Message From Señor Lowax: Specified thread not found in the live forums." This almost never happens.
 
dynastia won't stop chanting "kwexit" and throwing stones at me and slipping pictures of nigel farage under my door

Look all I said was when Something Awful sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending keyboard goop guy. They’re not sending poison womb guy. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing white noise. They’re bringing gimmick posting. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
 
Wait... why don't they just delete the spam posts and threadban the disruptive user? Because that would make a lot more sense than just locking it. Do you have to pay extra money to view gassed threads?

That kind of features are way too advanced for SA.

And no, unless it is locked away in the archive.
 
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