Correct me if I'm wrong but you said something upthread which I took to mean, that copyright infringement lawsuits have in the past distracted you from the actual day-to-day running of the site, if not hit you with a legal bill. Someone mentioned Righthaven upthread...
Maybe the cost of bandwidth, infrastructure etc isn't an issue for you but in your shoes, I would want to avoid litigation if only for the fact that I'd have better things to do with my time than be dragged into court on the basis of someone cloning a newspaper article and posting it on a thread.
I'm in the trade so to speak - specializing in data loss prevention, access control, and SOX / CFR21 Part 11 compliance, all that cobblers - or in plain English, it's my job to ensure my customers don't get harmed or sued because confidential data starts appearing on Wikileaks or they're found to have stuff they ought not to have, on their systems.
I was only suggesting the configuration changes, on the basis that they'd mitigate the risk of litigation without having a detrimental impact on the user experience. If anything, it might make page loads a bit faster and new threads a bit easier to read.
But if you disagree, no problemo. I'm old-fashioned. when I were a lad, we had nowt but Gopher, and it were great...
