Why are threads critical of the government closed and deleted?

I've noticed that many threads that are critical of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of drones to spy on US citizens, the prosecution of government whistleblowers, or the revolving door between government appointees and Wall Street usually get deleted. Why?

• Dear heart, you've already been told why: it's because you spammed them. Your two favorite tactics are to spam the same article on a dozen or more reactivated, months-old threads, or to post the same point over and over and over again on a single thread in a very short time, most likely because you're drunk again. The webmaster is very tolerant of your rude and childish behavior, dear, but even he has limits.

• In other words; you need a new hobby, Drone Troll.

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• Many websites silently censor intelligent conservatives, then use the remaining ones as straw man to perpetuate the myth that only liberal Democrats are intelligent.

• [quote]Many websites silently censor intelligent conservatives, then use the remaining ones as straw man to perpetuate the myth that only liberal Democrats are intelligent. Whereas others let them remove all doubt.

• More delusional-thinking from yet another typical conservative.

• I hadn't noticed those threads disappearing OP but on my local newspaper blog the ones who whine the most about threads or comments being deleted/censored are rightwing freepers who moan about their freedom of speech being infringed upon by a "liberal" media all the while reporting the "libtards" who refute their paranoid claims until said "libtards" get banned and then they gleefully boast about it. Maybe they just know you are trolling?

• [quote]Many websites silently censor intelligent conservatives, And your proof of this is...?

• It's because the New World Order is actually behind the DataLounge. They also keep a record of what everyone posts, the IP address it was posted on, and they link that IP address with a name. If someone gets too out of line, and starts asking questions, they inform the NSA/FBI/CIA of the poster's possible connections to terrorism. Eventually, if the posting continues, they may get sent to Guantanamo Bay, or if the posts are especially incriminating of the government, they send drones to the poster's home. I know this because Alex Jones and Ron Paul told me.

• [quote]Many websites silently censor intelligent conservatives... Uh-huh, right.... It doesn't matter, in any case, since that doesn't apply to the OP, since he hasn't been "censored," is manifestly not "intelligent," and is not "conservative."

• [quote]I hadn't noticed those threads disappearing OP He had a couple of Paul Krugman threads deleted. They had remained active for a few months until he decided to repeatedly spam them with some inane "challenge" from a fellow loon. [quote]Maybe they just know you are trolling? Bingo. The webmaster is very tolerant of this particular loon but even he has limits. Mostly, he just locks the threads when the OP goes nuts but occasionally he'll delete them.

• Confirmation bias. If it makes you uncomfortable, or goes against your beliefs that Democrats are pure and Republicans are evil, it gets deleted. Especially when it exposes the crimes of BOTH parties.

• Because you have the morals of a Ukrainian spam operation and are dumber than a box of hair? Just my guess.

• If sticky messes are not cleaned up right away, they will attract ants and flies.

• [quote]If it makes you uncomfortable, or goes against your beliefs that Democrats are pure and Republicans are evil, it gets deleted. ROFL.... Wow... you really don't get it, do you? And you're wholly incapable of dealing with reality, or learning anything that contradicts with your lunatic worldview. Has it really escaped your notice that your threads remain around for months and, in some cases, years, dear? That they don't get deleted or closed unless you spam them? And that as long as you're not spamming, the webmaster just really doesn't give a rats ass? You posted the same drivel to twenty old threads, dear, reactivating threads that hadn't had anything posted to them for months. And then you spammed a couple of other threads repeatedly, posting and reposting the same lame "challenge" from a fellow loon, a dozen times or more in a single two-hour stretch. Of course the webmaster responded to this rude, spamming, and trolling behavior, dear. Why are you surprised? You don't want your threads deleted? Don't spam them.