>>2448836It was put in place to prevent image cramming. There was a fella that liked to kill off threads in /c that he didn't like or that he felt had been around too long.
Of course, that didn't apply to his threads and he used to make a big deal about how long his threads stayed on the board.
"Anal-retentive" didn't hold a candle to his degree of autism or schadenfreude induced pain.
And yet for all the glee that he derived from pulling the wings off of flies, he still went on to self-destruct and ended being swallowed up by his own posterior orifice.
Some say that he still exists and can be summoned by staring into a mirror and saying his accursed name three times.
tl;dr: "This is why we can't have nice things."
