It's the lack of an explanation that irritates me, Steve. In my working life, I managed many people and I made it a practice, whenever I had to enforce rules,mthat I explained what I was doing and why. It's the decent, civilised thing to do. You will never get respect if you treat adults like children.

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Sorry, that doesn't work. If explanations are given it provides a catalyst for the arguers to then attack the moderator who made the decision and makes that moderator the subject instead of the flawed discussion that was truncated. You can't please all of the people all of the time.