Quote Originally Posted by gallum View Post
Caravel means that the exchange is offtopic and so the exchange is to be moderated and NOT THE WHOLE THREAD CLOSED WHICH IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ALTACCOUNT/TROLL IN QUESTION.
I do not believe this is what Caravel had in mind.
Quote Originally Posted by caravel View Post
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.
I happen to disagree with this viewpoint, there was no way I was going to let the thread continue on it's course without intervention. Locking the thread was likely the easy way out, but I feel like this discussion (in one form or another) would be going on regardless of which mechanism I used.