This thread had established that the closure of threads gave no technical benefit to the running of the site.

Then it was closed – for no good reason and anonymously by one of the few fellow posters trusted with an edit button.

Then it was re-opened by The Chief of The Mudcat Editing Staff – who asks us to accept that – unknown to him - he may have even been responsible for its closure.

This is what is not only ludicrous – it is all totally out of proportion to the problem.

If the ability to impose closure upon threads is so easy for anyone with an edit button to not only do it by mistake – but also to be unaware that they have done it – perhaps the ability to close threads can be removed from those few fellow posters trusted with this edit button?

If we accept that it is – (perhaps too) easy to close a thread inadvertently – how likely is that the person responsible is not aware that they were responsible?

Has it in fact ever been established that this thread was closed unintentionally?

By a process of elimination - it should be easy to establish the truth. If all of those trusted with edit buttons deny responsiblity - then the one with overall responsibilty and who is supposed to be in control - must take the blame - and perhaps apologise to our forum?