Because moderators make mistakes?
Because it's interesting to look back at historical trends of amount of spam?
Because I don't delete users, posts, threads, etc. etc. 

You're special, metlslime. 

maybe, but why do you care as long as you don't have to see it? 

I fail to see half the logic in your thinking.

But I'm sure that's mutual, hooo-hah! 

metlslime: please delete the above spam posted by IP# 70.224.231.22. 

i'd love to but it goes against my nonsensical principles. 

but metlslime, it's SPAM! and everyone has exactly the same definition of spam, so it's ok to delete.

and besides, it's not like if you relented slightly in your policy of 'no deletion' that it would become a slippery slope. 

it's too late... i'm already slipping.... aaaaaaaaaaaah 

What aboot code tags? Would be easier to sift through some QuakeC in a monospace font. 

not a bad idea. 

would it be possible to get something to fix up the time for different time zones? the timestamps are kind of useless for me atm. :P 

i have thought of that. FYI, the timestamps were EST for the first two years, then PST for the last two years. And now on the new server they're somewhere in germany, so i guess that's called CET.

Anyway, my plan is to have users choose a time zone in their preferences, and then to translate timestamps into their local time. 

Ability to tag favorite posts. Say you're digging back a few years for some mapping help or a particular topic, you can flag it as a favorite, add a keyword or 3, easily accessible in your Account page. 

You could set a range of posts, like #234-263 etc. 

i'll add it to the list 

I've always been bothered by the fact that you could never link to the 'last 25' posts of a thread externally. Such as, if I wanted to link to the Speedmapping thread in general, but wanted to ensure that the link only went to the last 'page' of posts. 

good point. 

RSS feed(s). 

But what's the point? Even if I created a feed, nobody would realize that it even existed. 

Why wouldn't they - surely you would link it somehwere for all to see... or are you saying RSS is so underused it's not worth it? 

go to the news page. 

That brings me to news_rss.php which Firefox just wants to bookmark - but where is the actual .RSS feed that I could add to a reader? 

news_rss.php 

index.html 

You failed to understand. The news_rss.php which Firefox just wants to bookmark actually works fine as it is a proper rssfeed.