Amiga.org staff,
I feel that the moderation techniques of this forum site should be reviewed. To take the recent locking of the PeggyII vs AmigaOne thread as a current example, first of all I can completely understand the reasons WHY moderators would have chosen to do something about the mud slinging that developed in that thread, however I do not agree with their solution to it.
Unfortunately, in this world wherever you go, you'll always find at least one group of idiots who want to ruin things for the rest. It's nothing to do with the Amiga Community being bad news, you get these kinds of people wherever you go! Now the thing is, most of us are genuine Amiga fanatics who take absolutely no interest at all in mud slinging or bickering or generally causing trouble - all we want to do is talk about the Amiga.
Locking that thread punishes the normal well behaved forum user such as myself. I wanted to add my views to that subject, but I had no interest in fuelling the arguments or adding my own mud slinging - all I wanted to do was talk about the next generation machines.
If I were the moderator, I think my attitude would be to single out the trouble makers, and lock THEM from posting on the subject, while allowing the rest of us to get on and have a proper discussion. I do not agree with punishing everyone for the acts of a few.
Just my thoughts on the subject, anyway. I feel the forum would be a much better place to hang out if threads weren't being locked all of the time.
Brian