Cliffton thread & Axalon/Deb8

[caravel]

What is so different in this subject that makes people so eager to fight about everything, even some imagined, nonexistent offends? Probably some people just like to debate no matter of a subject.

Certain people see a thread or post with certain usernames attached and it causes decade old grudges to resurface... it's as simple as that, not about "iron man rules" at all. It doesn't have to be iron man rules as such, could be anything and in fact it has been, it doesn't matter what those posters are posting, it's the fact that it's those posters who are posting it...

If you read the original, resurrected thread you will see all of this - plain as day. No need to speculate or guess...

You've certainly been around long enough to have seen this.

@gollum - mentioning Axalon in the way you did is not the healthiest way to argue. Going personal is just why the "Iron Man" topic was closed.

You are merely speculating as to why the thread was closed.

What I find interesting is that you have a practically dead forum - with (as I said) more STW and MTW activity at TWC - and you have a moderator here closing the only active threads because of a little "debate".

btw I'm surprised caravel took the bait. It was clear it won't go unnoticed by moderators.

Of course it wasn't going to go unnoticed. I haven't taken any "bait" as such, I've only responded to comments directed towards me, while posting legitimate content and trying to keep the thread on topic...

But for some, their long standing grudge always comes first, hence the predictable slide into oblivion...

I understand why drone closed the thread.

Whereas I do not.

Probably, it was like "Geeez, I have better things to do than diving into this pile of.. irrelevant comments. Let's stop it for good." Deleting all comments starting from 49 and dropping a warning for certain participants would be IMHO a better option but he did what he did.

You can only speculate. I'm not trying to get inside the head of any .org staff or understand the rationale for why the thread was closed. In my opinion there was no need to close the thread and there is no need to censor or hack up the thread.

At the most, the thread could have been split.