If there's a purpose other than trolling, I can't see it.

Then why pay any attention or respond to it and refresh the thread?

What this thread has established is that closing (and deleting) an entire thread - containing many perfectly acceptable postings that Max has invited - without any of the posters permission and knowledge - is easy. For any of our unknown number of nameless volunteers can impose this action - if or when they judge the need for this meets their guidelines.

That is technically possible to re-open a closed thread if rather unlikely ever to happen. And that the procedure is to first ask for this via a Personal Message - a course of action that would not be open to any 'guest' poster.

Now as this may seem to be a little OTT - perhaps the policy could now be reviewed - in order that if there is real need for any imposed action to take place at all - this is confined only to the offending posts?

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If there is a compelling need for a thread to be reopened, you can also send your request to me by e-mail, joe@mudcat.org
If you're not satisfied by my decision, you can appeal to Mudcat owner Max Spiegel, max@mudcat.org
-Joe Offer-