I think that it is absolutely valid for a member of this forum to privately ask a moderator to look at a thread with a view to closing it down. I think I might have done that twice (maybe three times, my memory gets dimmer...). As far as I can make out there are just three moderators here, who have a massive job overseeing the plethora of threads above and below the line. I don't get on well with a couple of them but they all have my sympathy and I can't blame them for sometimes not visiting the hate-fest threads very often. So I can't see anything wrong with drawing their attention every now and then, my personal criterion for that not being thread drift per se (though threads that drift from something else into antisemitism are doomed) but when they turn into open day for terminal personal nastiness. As I'm sure Dave will agree, (and considering that I've recently been excoriated for "getting the Gaza thread closed"), it's unfair to accuse ordinary forum members of closing threads. We actually have no say. The mods have a job to do in maintaining at least a minimum level of civil ethos and we could help. You're not a cry-baby or a loser for doing that. Refusing to engage with vexatious posters whose motive is anything other than proper discussion is a good start. A bit more humour thrown in can also help to defuse situations. But then we're up against that notorious American sense of humour... ;-)