Thank you for your offer, but my concern had to do with with ricochetting consequences.
It's just a suggestion that maybe an adjustment to moderation policy would be useful (as the existence of this thread would indicate) - something along the lines:
- whenever you delete a thread, try to preserve legitimate messages in a new thread with subject changed to:
<original subject, abbreviated to 30 characters>... [thread edited by moderator]
- threads lacking legitimate messages are not subject to this policy
In general, such policy may benefit community as a whole (it did in various places I have seen it implemented, for example in various document repositories where ISO standards are enforced).
Regards,
Ruemere