I am TOTALLY with Eliza on this.


> I was enjoying the viewpoints put forward by a wide variety of posters, and the different angles being considered. Rather than shut the whole thing down, might it not have been better to remove any posts considered offensive or unacceptable, so that those remaining could continue their discussion?

> Don't … chuck the baby out with the bathwater in this way [but just] remove unacceptable material and the thread continues.

> One can scroll down (sometimes for several lines!) until these posts come to an end, ignore them and continue as usual. To bar the rest from carrying on the interesting discourse is a bit irritating.


More than "a bit". It would be great if everybody could please stop responding to other people's messages and stick to the original topic, which started out as an intelligent exchange of views & experience regarding this sorry case. Just let those individuals talk to themselves - that type of visual isolation really does speak volumes, believe me.

Mudcat needs as much constructive input as it can get - it's been so decimated by the grim reaper and those choosing to leave (not to mention competition from other social media) that it should nurture all the good content it can muster, not zap it. The extended-conversation and archive aspects are one of this forum's great strengths. But the wholesale truncation of perfectly worthwhile threads just discourages us from bothering to put in the effort. (Facebook comments make a mayfly look long-lived, and it's nigh unto impossible to find anything again later. Also their visibility is generally limited to one's Friends so not everyone even sees it.)

Is there ANY chance of re-opening Eliza's thread, and - in Mod's big red letters - instructing everybody to ignore personal opinions which they disagree with, perhaps on pain of deletion? And combine it with this one, which does also offer some good points?

#whistlinginthewind