<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by NJDavid:
OK, so the complaint here is a thread was locked down that "might" have errupted into a flame war, but it wasn't one yet? About F-----g time! The more consistently people are forcefully shown where they can not go, the less they will try. More forceful moderation and stricter adherance to the TOS has been needed here for years.
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The danger in doing this kind of "forceful moderation" is that some FTers can effectively hijack an existing thread which has no flame wars. So lets say that there is a thread with no flames, and then someone interjects. Shoudn't that person be restrained (and the thread kept open)?