There are good reasons for thread deletion which need not and sometimes cannot be divulged. As Steve says, like it or not, it is not your gig. Complain to Max if you have an issue.

On the subject of meta discussions, now I understand the term a bit better, do we not think that a lot of the heated discussions are now becoming meta? They start off as one thing, move to another and we end up arguing over who has scored more points via quotes from 'reliable sources'. The point of the debate seems to become lost in the rush to get one over on someone or prove them wrong. It all seems very 'my Dad is bigger than your Dad' to me. Maybe that is not meta but the worse threads, the ones that get closed, end up in a closed loop arguing about the minutiae of the argument rather than the topic.

Or is it just me?