[Matt Monson]

I’ll agree with you that this place doesn’t have any active moderation these days. If it was caught early, the thread could have been saved. But two pages of slap fighting and whet can you do? You shoot it in the head and put it down like a crippled horse. Sometimes it all you can do.

Back in the hey day of web forums I moderated a couple forums. It’s hard work to be a moderator. And thankless work. It’s like retail customers, only one in ten says thank you publicly, but ten in ten who have even the slightest issue slams you to the world.

Pelican sold. It’s not Wayne’s house anymore. The moderators aren’t present in the way they used to be. It’s a ghost ship of sorts. My point is don’t kill the messenger. Whomever killed that thread was doing triage when surgery was due. Amputation was the logical option.