MGof H, perhaps if you had said something when one person started all the thread creep on day 2.

They brought up the incursion into Gaza and much older stuff, making claims they knew from previous arguments were so contentious that they would not go unchallenged.

Or when that same person resumed the discussion of a closed thread so that child abuse in N England was discussed on this thread!

I was the only person who questioned the relevance.
You let him get on with it unchallenged.