I just looked; I can't find it. Maybe it was mistakenly deleted...
I agree with FRuiTY, censorship's not cool, but it's a free country, and if the owners of the site want to kill all inappropriate content, that's their prerogative. If he has the power, there are a few posters Babak should kill as well (uhhh, you know what I mean).
I think more important than deleting threads entirely is promptly putting them into ChitChat if they're obviously posted in the wrong place. It was really noticeable during the Iraq Invasion - "How will evil Saddam's hoard of WMDs affect AOL stock?" and "Will the fact that the wussy gay Democrats hate freedom and want to destroy America move the markets?" Maybe there should be a politics section, you could name it "Our Evil Overlords".
Then people wouldn't have to stretch to make their offtopic posts seem like legitimate trading questions. My vote (which, like in the elections, doesn't count), is that all content should be kept online if possible. There are many scientists studying this site trying to understand the trader's psyche, and all these posts (especially ChitChat) give insight into our twisted little subculture. Also, much of the evidence collected here can be used to ban trading altogether in the future as the addiction of the obscenely mentally ill.
And for FRuiTY and his lovely female friends, maybe the powers that be can make a new section: "The Cesspool", where over-hormoned, macho, bring me your freeking meats and cheeses guys can go and blow off some steam with others of their kind after a hard day's trading. Oh, and not just their own kind, but the opposite sex as well. Slap a warning sticker on it so Father O'Flanagan doesn't burn his eyeballs out while he's here looking for 401k info.
That might sound like I'm inviting off-topic posts, (which I don't want, there's enough already) but I always found the best tips were acquired from hanging around the WaterCooler, I'd hate to see anything of value disappear because some teenybopper posts his dream girl pic...
