Why was the "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do" thread closed?

[Marley23]

@Fiveroptic

However, I think Marley made an incredibly unwise decision in closing it, for even if his decision was not based on both of you being members of the Fraternal Order of Mods, it certainly stinks of favouritism.

Again, how? The thread went on for 5 1/2 pages over the course of two days. A lot of people criticized twickster from the get-go. If your position is that I locked the thread because I wanted to shield her from criticism, you have to admit I was very slow on the trigger.

And unfortunately, that makes you look suspect in the whole thing.

:rolleyes: I made a decision to close the thread and I stand by it. twickster was not involved.

@PlainJain

Not only that, mods have made it clear in the past that they won’t lock a thread that turns ugly (or against the OP) even if the OP requests it.

That’s not true. We close a lot of threads because they get ugly or because the OP asks for it. Sometimes an OP will ask us to close a thread because he or she wanted approval from the board and is getting critical reactions instead. That wasn’t the case here.

@Zoe

Maybe the lack of response to your question suggests that it wasn’t as much of a train wreck as you saw it to be.

Perhaps.

Why not just moderate such threads rather than kill them?

I did moderate the thread first: I gave Cheshire Human a warning and told him his comments were over the line. After I saw his responses I figured there was no way the thread was going to come back:

@Cheshire_Human

OK, I submit to your authority. Consider me chastised…

“Whimper, Whimper, Whimper…”

End of argument?

Good enough?

@Cheshire_Human

Gee, no-one will tell me I’m forgiven… Am I?

@Cheshire_Human

Shall I whimper some more???

Please sir, may I have some more?