as a mod i felt that that thread was wrong to be started at that time, i was unsure about closing it straight away so i posted saying that people found that offencive and as then i still think it shouldnt have been posted at that time, then to be given the aswer "well if people dont like that tough" i found tottaly unacceptable so i closed the thread.
now if this topic was started say 13 moths, 2 weeks and 2 days after the event "see link in the above post"then im sure i wouldnt have found it out of order or out of place, and i doubt others would have found it so offensive, there are times when you need to use disgression as to what you post, and when posts are felt to be out of place miss timed or offencive then we as mods have to decide what to do with them.
Some people post/start thread with the intetion of provoking people into flames and offending people others do it unintetionally, ive done it as im shure others have, i posrted a response to a thread not really thinking how people would react to it in a clan forum, when i next checking it, it had really offended some of the users and i got PM's about it, and i remeber thinking "yer timing could have been i little better there son"
my post was inapropriate and misstimed and i after seeing the response i knew it.
ive had my own threads deleted and posts removed edited in the past and not "thrown my teddys out pram" about it, and certainly not followed up by posting irrelevent childish responses to or about people who editid my posts/threads etc , as far as im concerned they felt it was out of place or out of order, OK so be it. im not gonna loose sleep over somone editing deleteing my point of view especially as it was obviously out of order to them, i know the people who mod the forums well enough to realise they dont go round editing deleteing threads out of some form of power trip or spite.
i stand by my decision to close the Bali bombing thread as i felt it shouldnt have been started at that time.
i agree with what BB says including the absence of Wintermute he was one of the few people that posted about issues who would use fact and back up his oppinions with some sort of reasoning whether you felt it right or wrong and was also capable of seeing other point of view wether he agree with it or not.
As for the way the P.S. forums should be run im not shure.
If people can except that somtimes Mods will remove or close threads that intentionally/unententionally offend people then the forum can go on as normal how do you deem what is offencive, thats i difficult question as the Mods know i didnt find that flash movie game with the suicide bomber offencive at the time, but lookin at it now yeah that was way out of line, i didnt argue with the decision to remove it but i did question it, yet i did feel the Bali bombings was, i did have a friend traveling who was in Bali at the time so tho i dont think it was, it could have been an emotive decision on my part because it was a little closer to home for me , i dont know.