I went on
AIUK this morning to find a post from last night locked. As far as I could see there was nothing on it that was inflammatory and was simply asking why another post had been locked.
As I have had several of my own posts and polls moderated, and in my case probably deservedly so, I just could not understand why the mods had locked the 'Horesbowman' thread.
My posts were moderated because they stepped over the line but I don't think this one did. If anything by locking the thread the mods are having the opposite effect and proving Horesbowman's point.
There is no way any aggressive, racist, deflamatory or overtly sexist post should be tolerated - however this one wasn't.
Did it have the potential to become so? - Yes! but so do many threads on here. Just look at some of mine
So should the mods try and prempt how a thread will go? - NO! if it gets out of hand then deal with it by moderating appropriately as TJ did yesterday. However if you introduce censorship based on what you think may happen then this forum will end up with a lot of threads about 'How many Dave's in your club' (Which I thought was funny BTW)