We closed the other thread because it was the same four people repeating themselves at each other with the intent of winning points against each other -- at that point, it's a derpbate in a deathspin, and we closed that thread down reluctantly because we were hoping to get more useful feedback. But hey, useful feedback was being smothered by an argument between extreme positions bickering with each other over who had the biggest e-peen.

Several of us even said we weren't closing it down until immaturity pretty much forced us to close it down.

I'm not a big fan of a public explanations of moderator actions, because I tend to feel that the rules themselves are a sufficient explanation of how and when we act, but I feel that since certain people *ahem -- ^* seem hell-bent on misrepresenting us in public, I'm going to break silence and say something in our defense, rather than let people self-anoint themselves our spokesman and really hose it up, something that also happened in the aforementioned closed thread.