Ko Tao - why stifle discussion?

[boomerangutang]

If forum members want to discuss it, then what's the problem?

This forum exists for the forum members does it not?

...if there are other issues, like threats of 'defamation of character' suits, then it's fair that we hear about such things.

....or perhaps there are issues with some posters 'reporting' posts they don't like. Yet again, we should hear about it. Secrecy is easy, and so is locking threads, but that's not what we want in a public forum.

It was obviously a popular topic, otherwise it wouldn't elicit hundreds of responses each day. What's the real reason for repeatedly closing them down? Does it have anything to do with VIP's?

If you were hosting a barbecue party in your back yard, and some of the folks were heartily playing leap frog, and someone (who was also playing) came up to you and said they didn't like leap-frog, would you shut down the game?

[JLCrab]

Edited August 10, 2015 by JLCrab

[Scott]

The forum exists, in part, to provide information to our members and to allow for their questions and input on issues which are relevant. With some topics it is not possible to allow them to be open for a variety of reasons, some of them are legal in nature and others are that they become repetitive with the same people posting the same material over and over and over again. We then get complaints from members who cannot find pertinent information because they have to wade through page after page of combative and argumentative posts.

Topics are sometimes closed for review by the moderating staff and some are closed pending a clean-up of inflammatory and off-topic posts. In long threads this is problematic because it requires removing nested quotes.

There are two sides to this situation and we take both your concerns and those that request that we moderate these issues more closely.

[boomerangutang]

The Vietnam war ended for some when they left the ravaged country to return to the US, but it didn't end for others, ....for example those with symptoms of Agent Orange. Sorry to take some things too seriously.

[Scott]

This is now closed.