@IceTorque
In your original post, you've said it all - this is a discussion forum, and the mods are happy to allow discussion to take place. However, no one here wants it to degenerate into flaming or something worse.

The goal of the moderators is to stop such an event occurring, not to clean up once it has. To this end, econ and the others have to make calls on whether they believe a thread to be constructive to the forum and able to lead to open debate, or likely to descend into thinly veiled attacks between members.

You may not agree on some of the calls that have been made, and believe that some threads should have remained open. That's your opinion; but you have to remember, the mods are here to stop a situation becoming potentially dangerous, and if that means that some threads are closed that may have avoided the spectre of flaming, then that's life.

Considering that econ in particular has been around the m2tw forum since its very inception, you have to trust that he has the ability to judge the mood of a thread and come to the correct decision about its future. From what I've seen, he's done this very well.

So remember when you tout your personal problems and this or that thread to support you - there are hundreds of threads where the right decision has been made, and because of that, you haven't had to see what can happen if it wasn't