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It's still better than having mods. The only way this place could be moderated is if one of the posters was a mod, and if one of the posters was a mod, what happened today would happen on a regular basis and
people ip addresses would be banned as well for equally silly reasons. Most shit posters without a source of feedback get bored and move on, although Ahmed is one such exceptional exception. A mature viewer will apply their own filter, and only reply to what they want to see on prog. It's a form of voting. But in a democracy all people are to have equal voting power. Automated posting is to increase one's vote to become totalitarian. Through a minor exercise in programming, a poster is able to assign themself the role of a moderator. The competency requirement filters out most people that have this level of maturity, but sometimes a /prog/rider will get carried away.