I have to say that I thought part of the idea was that threads below the line was "anything goes" territory. I thought this thread had been started as a bit of fun, bound to become silly, but so what? Surely "the line" was introduced so that people who don't want the silly stuff could easily stay away.

I don't know what happened here becasue the thread started late at night for me. I made two light hearted posts, which I thought were in the spirit of the thread, then went to bed. Next day I found the censorship axe had come down.

In view of much of the non-funny unadulterated crap in many of the below-the-line threads, I think this may well be overkill.