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those threads would have been self-bumped, so ignoring them would have left them on teh front page for quite some time. I don't believe self-bumps are disabled on heyuri, so autosage is needed if they are to be cleared away without outright deleting them.
and when it comes to trust, it is not so simple as being hands-off. when running a small site that's focused on maintaining a certain culture and quality, it is necessary for the admins to walk a fine line between exerting enough force to prevent newcomers or existing users from shifting the culture into an undesired direction and being hands-off enough to avoid stifling the users. the site admins handle teh balance well enough.
I am one of teh janitors, so you may think that because of that I am biased towards the staff. however, the reason I volunteer to be a janitor and clean up teh CP and teh spambots and teh soyjaks is because I love heyuri for what it is and because I believe in staff-sama's vision for what it should be.
sorry for teh longpost but my earnest feelings got in the way ( ´ω`)