Actually, yeah. If you continually trash pointless threads, then bounty hunters will eventually stop posting in them. After all, they'll learn their lesson when the post count drops by 100 all of a sudden.

I suggested locking as opposed to trashing since it would be a less radical change however considering the fact that plenty of megathreads were trashed in past, I don't think there should be much of a problem there.

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Every time I go into any board outside of Reputation and Scam Accusations, I see many lengthy threads worthy of removal.