What's up with the censorship?

What's up with the censorship lately?

A couple of days ago this thread was deleted:
www.abovetopsecret.com...'

From what I understood it was deleted because it's against the T&C to "recruit" ATS members. No recruiting was done afaik. Hoaxing is also against the T&C yet I never see those threads deleted, even if they are an admitted hoax.

Yesterday this thread was deleted:
www.abovetopsecret.com...'

Why? Beats me. Probably a trigger happy mod?

So my question, what is up with the inconsistent thread deletion
Maybe it would be a good idea to at least send the members participating in a thread an automated U2U when it is deleted, with a short message by the mod explaining WHY he deleted it?

[edit on 29-8-2008 by sn00daard]

I am going to say just because it's simple business.

From a hoax standpoint, them threads gets massive views. It keeps the viewers coming back. Look how easy it is, to create an account on ATS. No captcha, no e-mail validation, nothing. This in turn, gets you massive amounts of sign-ups, which could be a bot or a person creating 20 accounts.

More viewers, more advertising money, better page rank.

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You do realize that the links you provided are nil, that no one knows what threads you are talking about?

Posts violating our Terms & Conditions are deleted ("censored").

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[edit on 29-8-2008 by Skyfloating]