you're on the wrong track, Will.
what they are doing is posing vile, disgusting comments and then deleting them before they can get a hide for it. there's nothing heroic about it. they are just acting like a typical, hate-filled juvenile... and they are all lefty... all of them
They're only doing that because they watched a few people post vile, disgusting comments to me for 13 months, right out in the open, with no consequences. During that time, all the normal people on the site watched me reach out to thoughtful conservatives, listen to them, agree with them whenever possible, and try to raise the tone.
DI viewers responded by giving me more clicks than any other poster. When the "death squad"" (Qukid and the far right, both of whom wanted me gone) posted a series of O.P.'s about me on the occasion of my 1st anniversary on the site, an O.P. was published in the "Help" Forum entitled, "Let's Give Will Morningstar What He Wants: Five Hides". I had zero (0) hides at that time. They tried for 5 in 6 hours; got 4 in 5 days.
I began self-deleting everything within 4 to 7 minutes, as my each and every post was being alerted, for the next 2 weeks. The surviving Liberals followed my lead. I could have kept this up until December 19th, when all 4 same-day deathsquad hides expired. Instead, I made a statement by my actions, which always speak louder than words:
I posted in (name withheld)'s "Let's Give Will Morningstar What He Wants: Five Hides", O.P., and did not self-delete. Good and decent conservative poster Summer joined me there, and we had a pleasant conversation. It took the deathsquad less than an hour to remove my 5th innocent post.
This thread now has almost 3,000 views. All Liberals are now quitting Discussionist. And the instigators have now published 6 O.P.'s whining about it.
They wanted a Liberal-Free environment. They got one. Now they can't stop crying about it. And I still get more views in death than they get in life.