Ty stand-up baker. I'll stick around a couple hours as backup worst-case, but I think Veli will be available later. (I'm the baker whose computer's acting wonky).
>I thought we were supposed to filter for ourselves using our minds to toughen our concentration. Hard to do if you are pulling the posts.
Anon is correct that only BO/BV can remove posts.
Posts are never removed on a subject content basis unless the content is illegal.
Excessive, high volume, transparently recognizably repetitive spam, however, will sometimes be removed.
Some high-volume spammers spam so recognizably as to be given names.
Tiresias is one such spammer.
There is literally not one single fuck given around here when that faggot is banned and his waste-of-bread bullshit deleted.
But for the most part, yeah, we just learn to "filter ourselves using our minds," as you said.
If the price of free speech is enduring a few shills, it's a price anons gladly pay.
BO/BV do what they can do lighten our load in that regard, but the fuckers only hop IP's and come back.
So we researchers have to have reasonable expectations given the rules of play and do our jobs best we can anyway.
Which we do.
We have the best anons