Thread:Airstrikerable/@comment-7697305-20140112174615/@comment-7697305-20140113184136

I agree that threads containing legitimate questions should not be deleted. To this end, I would have agreed that the thread in question should also not have been deleted...if it had been made back in mid-October, when Airstrikerable's block first expired. Thing is, a thread on this topic was created back then. Considering how Airstrikerable stopped responding to that thread after a while and went about editing the wiki normally, anyone could be forgiven for thinking that he a) felt that he had received a satisfactory answer regarding why he was blocked or b) just decided to drop the issue. With all of that in mind (in addition to the wording of the title and the fact that Airstrikerable's first edit in a month and a half is bringing up a months-old block), it becomes much more difficult to make a case for his intentions actually being to ask a legitimate question. I believe I made the right call in deleting that thread (and I assure you that it was not simply because the wording was unkind). As I mentioned in the OP of this thread, he's free to ask again without some of the factors which led me to this conclusion (even if I believe that the issue should not have been brought up again).

(Re on the bit about personal attacks: the title of the thread being "I hate you" was undoubtedly directed at the person rather than the action, and it seemed unlikely that its intentions were constructive. Considering how the policy page in question doesn't limit itself to prohibiting direct insults, I felt that this case could easily be interpreted as a violation of the policy.)