Hell was repetition. In this thread, to make it easier to game, Hell will be defined as locked thread with no posts in it on the one hand, and "other posters" on the other.
How digital. Deletion is just another example of power creep introduced to attract the younger 'cut-and-paste' crowd that thinks every forum should work like some sort of computer word processor.
Bah. The posts I grew up reading were 'expunged', not 'deleted'. I guess it just goes to show how threads are catering to the anime and WoW crowds these days...