For quite some time, perhaps even before you came here, it has been a general principle that only one thread on a subject is supposed to be active on the Forum Menu at any one time.

There are a number of other general principles that you have trampled underfoot in that time - probably all of them far more important than the one you now see as important enough to impose censorship on - as the one and only means to shape our forum to your taste.

Despite the fact that you have no control over what anyone chooses to post or where - it may be wish (for those of us with tidy minds) that the forum appears ordered and that no two threads on the same subject should be seen at one time.

But does the end always justify the means used to achieve it? It is twittering about with such minor detail while a far worse example of conduct is set and defended that has led you to now propose that the public be excluded from posting BS.

I see no value in the continued combat we've had, or in our continuing to protect the anonymity of those who want to cause trouble anonymously.

For you appear to see no conflict with your above statement with protecting the anonymity of those who feel themselves qualified to impose their judgement upon their fellow posters. Has this not also caused and contributed to the combat? Would a change to this not help?