Someone was saying that was removed from the other threads. I guess it hit a little too close to home.
More like we were trying to cut down on flame wars by nipping them in the bud. We've been getting lots of complaints about them, and to my eyes they seem to be a little out of hand as well.
But our efforts to quell them haven't worked, and they have engendered a backlash and given people opportunity to claim that we are biased one way or another.
Oh well, it is a neverending learning process.