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Here is what I see on the top of the pulled thread you are using as a case in point (or rather, that you are talking about in the thread linked by you).

137 ABUSE REPORTS on file for this thread.

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That is a ton of abuse reports for one thread. And it wasn't just one side, and not all of them were invalid complaints. Jim tired of it after the first few dozens of complaints, and moved it to the backroom. Sometimes, if people are bound and determined to flame away, the best thing to do is to give them that vent otherwise it shows up in other threads. The alternative is to start suspensions and bans. We do that, but it is not the preferred alternative.

Thanks, LM

That is a ton of abuse reports for one thread. And it wasn't just one side, and not all of them were invalid complaints. Jim tired of it after the first few dozens of complaints, and moved it to the backroom. Sometimes, if people are bound and determined to flame away, the best thing to do is to give them that vent otherwise it shows up in other threads.

It was already in the backroom, why not just lock it down when it gets to the point of too many abuse reports? Wouldn't that serve the same purpose? Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.