The Mods do a remarkable job of staying on top of such a fast moving thread. I wonder if it might be desirable/feasible to delete posts without automatically re-numbering the thread? This would then make references to earlier post numbers in message text easier to locate (And would also provide a measure to the reader of how much cr*p gets deleted!)
Philipat, the numbering scheme may be a limitation or setting of the board software. There is a permalink at the upper right hand corner of each post that lives up to it's name and will always connect to a post still up.
I agree with you. Sometimes posts are more than a page or two away from their original location due to all of the bad that requires Mod Pruning.