I always enjoy your posts Jon but the whole "internet censorship" issue is just so old and overplayed.
This isn't a website run by our tax dollars (or your missing donation heart), this is a private website run by people, and you follow what they say, or you leave, It isn't a hard thing to comprehend.
This also isn't a court of law with ex post facto law. If the owners/mods say stop doing something, and the only defense is "Buuuut Mooooommmm...you never said we can't do that..." is just childish. Sure I guess having a week timeout is kind of childish too but whatever. You piss too many people off you get banned...nothing new for this site or anywhere else.

What's the point? You'll just be answering basically the same questions in one of the many "how come this thread was closed?...how come they are closing threads? where's my thread...etc etc.

Now it's the mods fault that people can;t have a discussion without spiraling out of control? Recock.

Wow what a mess.

I totally understand what you are saying, it's just a non issue from my perspective.

So now the Mods should email each other and have a vote aboot closing threads and if it meets the guidelines of the last thread they closed? It's just silly.

And that effects you how? You scratch your head and....so what? I don't mean that agressivly or rudely, it's just...what's the big deal? A thread gets closed and you don't understand why...but you should?

Right, a group of us can't agree on anything but you want them to have a pow-wow aboot it before they close a thread? What if one mod is out getting ice cream for his kids...gotta wait till he get back to lock up a thread? Just silly.

Wow..real puppet master

Is that really what you think?

Well you can stop hoping cause that isn't what happens on any website. Little boys don't drink their milk and study homework nightly to grow up to be a great poster, and then finally graduate MOD University.

This dialog has a flow to it?

Feels like a routed TZ with a crappy coil under the scoop