Closing threads

[slnewbus]

When the heat is on in a thread, why do you suddenly close it? It shows as a sign of rampant immaturity to me. The "I don't like it, I'm gonna close it" attitude is really prevolent here. I hadn't come here in a couple weeks and I checked up on the site today, and I see that it is even worse. Why is it this way? I see 12 year old immature people on this site, and adults acting just as immature. One of the ways this immaturity shows is in the premature closing of threads. Why do you do this and be like this?

[Andrew P]

^I'm sure you are referring to me.

Next time I feel a need to close a thread, I'll run it by you, capice?

[coasterdude28]

Heres how I see it. Andrew, along with the other Mods, have been doing this for a long time. They can see where a thread is going long before it gets there. They decide to close threads that they think will take a bad turn before it happens. There is nothing wrong with that. If it weren't for them doing things like that, this website would fall apart.

[slnewbus]

Your actually one of the better mods Andrew.

[Sir Willow]

Frankly, I much prefer that to pages and pages of flame wars all over the place, which is what the result would be otherwise. When people refuse to take personal discussions to PM's and insist on splashing them in threads, distracting from the appropriate discussion there, then it's perfectly appropriate to close the thread. I think that's much preferable to having to edit/ delete a bunch of posts to try to keep it on topic.

I certainly haven't had any reason to complain the couple of times they closed a thread I was "active" on. Sometimes it's helpful to have someone else shut me up on those infrequent occaisions that I can't seem to do it myself.

[Marc]

How about an example or two? Andrew has done most of the thread closing recently.