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Posted Nov 30, 2014 11:45 UTC (Sun) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Previous time by marcH
Parent article: The "Devuan" Debian fork

> [By the way the original troll at the top had zero signal but was relatively fun. For the many replies that followed (including this one) the average signal was not much higher and the fun factor zero]

Oh, no, the troll at the top had some signal: he mentioned that comments had been deleted, something which is extremely rare here on LWN. That should be worth a few bits of Shannon information.

It's the deleted comments which had zero signal, or at least the one I saw before it was deleted. It was so bad that my first reaction was to look for a "report" button, and once I remembered where I was to think "it's a pity that corbet doesn't delete comments here".

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Posted Nov 30, 2014 13:01 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

A certain forum that I'm a member of had, at some point, too many discussions about deleted messages. Thus a rule was set: you only discuss deletion of comments in one specific "Policy" discussion.