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@Velocio
I just got one gmail chat and one email, both from different people asking why I killed the thread and why they get special protection.
I'll bite.
I nuked the thread because it broke the rules.
I didn't know about the thread until caramel told me about it and asked if I could change the title or something as it was first in Google for them and they'd learned a lot and wanted to rethink things... but when I saw it I actually felt that nuking was better as it wasn't a thread I wanted on LFGSS anyway. Why? Because the thread shouldn't have survived 10 minutes if it had been seen by a mod... it should've been nuked on creation as being nothing more than spam.
If I hadn't been studying all weekend I would've nuked it sooner, that is my bad.
The thread broke the forum rules about selling stuff elsewhere, and I see no reason to leave the thread and to give them pagerank. I don't mind that this is what they were asking for, but I don't want to deliver them pagerank just for spamming us... the side effect of leaving a thread up just to be vindictive towards them would be that the spamming itself is successful.
The thread can be un-deleted (I never physically remove stuff, it just gets soft-deleted/hidden). And you're free to still lay into them if you want (it's not like you cannot start another thread or that would be deleted). I'd prefer the latter simply because the former was spam and I don't want spam to successfully deliver pagerank even if the thread slates the product. No-one is stop you having your rants, rant away.
Spam shouldn't survive. The rants you're free to do as much as you want. If you want to rant, start a thread and rant.