Each to thier own, but personally I have no qualms with threads that have deteriorated to the kind of garbage that the thread in question was reduced to being closed. What exactly is it that people are wanting to defend ? The right to talk crap and annoy others with semantics and/or innane arguements that people involved with understand both sides but argue anyway just to be "right"? Yes, what a tragic loss that is. People often talk of censorship and peoples right to freedom of speech. What about others rights not to have to deal with those that think of forums as thier own playground for rudeness ? A medium such as this has an obligation (if not that, at least an interest in) to keeping the majority happy, and hopefully the sheer volume of childish behaviour comes from a small minority. In short the needs/wants of the many are more important than the right to free speech..... believe what you want, even talk about it, but not when it's to the detriment of others.
