http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77622&messages=34

Yes you can still link to it and you can start another thread to talk about the same things (until some reason is found to close or delete this one also). So apart from perhaps making Joe feel special and important and being a rather futile exercise of power for the sake of power - there is really little point in closing or deleting entire threads - that Max has invited the public to contribute to - on this open discussion forum.

If individual posts at thought to be so bad that we really need protecting against ourselves - perhaps any future action can be taken against just these posts - and not the entire thread? This is perhaps a fairer approach?

Again Joe's confusion with the words 'we' and 'I' continues. Would it really be too much to ask if the comments from 'we' - always meaning action taken after joint agreement with others - made in editing text (so as not to refreash the thread) - were confined to this term? And comments such as the one above in normal text (which does refresh the thread) were confined to Joe's own views?