[user104658]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

I agree. Although, I was under the impression if a mod was heavily involved in a discussion thread, they just left it to another mod to do all of the moderating. Sometimes, this doesn't seem to be the case.

The thing is I don't think it matters. All of the mods have been mods for a long time, they have their own personal subforum, and are likely to be inclined to defend each other. And the response is too often disproportionate whether it's the mod who was actually involved in the thread or not who is taking action.

I'm not going to pretend that that thread wasn't a mess but the timing of it being locked and masses of posts being purged, and the removal of my thread-posting privileges for pointing it out, suggests that it's not a simple coincidence that exactly then was when it was deemed to have "gone too far".