Maybe so. I'll leave that to the mods. I thought about how to try to salvage the other guy's thread for a few hours before posting this one.
If the mods had corrected the title, as I asked in post #44, that might have been a good start. I could ping people over and try to get a discussion going amidst the others' ridicule.
But eventually the truth sunk in that it was the mods themselves who had altered the title of that thread, were ridiculing it themselves, and had no desire for a serious discussion on that thread. That's when I started working on creating this one.
As a general rule, I dislike duplicate threads, too. But I have seen occasions where the second thread was needed.
General rule of thumb is that duplicate threads are a bad thing.
Since this was restored, it seems that they have given a pass on this duplicate.