Mods can't - and shouldn't have to - necessarily guess how future interlocutors may feel about a closed thread when they happen to come across it. I don't subscribe to this 'walking on eggshells' m.o. just to save some face for the community down the road. And still, on the other side of the fence as a forum member, why should I freak out just because I wasn't there at the moment some thread got closed and automatically assume the mods intervened just 'cause they felt like it or were bored and wanted to abuse their powers?
I would just think that at the time a thread was closed it must have been for a good reason as deemed by the acting mod at the time. Whether or not that reason was justifiable wouldn't be my concern as a forum member now. After all, I just got here, didn't I?
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Originally Posted by Jake
The thread exists only because he cared enough about the community to write it.
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To be blunt, then, I don't think he expressed his care that well...
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Originally Posted by Fum
This forum is falling into a “town cop” syndrome....
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Wouldn't it have made more sense to have instead stated:
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Is this forum falling into a "town cop" syndrome?
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