I happen to agree with you in part, Ratteler. Removing posts accomplishes nothing. Like the ninth planet, the missing post shows its influence on the posts around it, engendering much confusion and anger. I've seen too many threads that devolve into screaming matches about what might or might not have been in a post that was removed. Let's leave the offensive post (or let the poster agree to delete it while clearly marking that it did once exist), and lock the thread around it. Are we, or are we not both strong enough and human enough to live with the evidence left by a troll or two, or an angry outburst now regretted by all the participants? I feel that hiding these only leads to smoldering resentments.