. . . how am I ever going to get "balanced" again if all the bad threads kill themselves before I even see them!

I'm only half-joking here. I think the recent changes to the system are having the intended effect of upgrading what we are seeing in the threads. But I do fear that some of us are going to get so desperate to find posts to assign negs to that we may start giving negs to posts which really aren't that bad.

I've been "unbalanced" for a couple of days now. So can someone PM me a quick link to a really bad post which hasn't killed itself yet?