Quote - ...t creates problems, plus always results in tension.

That's not necessarily true. I belong to some forums where there's very little along the lines of thread locking and such, where the people self-moderate, and things rarely get out of hand.
Flaming is interesting for only so long, and most people will just get tired of it, or get put in their place so bad they disappear.

Here, however, they lock threads, people get pissed off about it, then start new threads to complain about it, others come in defending the act... and so it goes, the whole cycle stands a good chance to be repeated, when it would have just died down, otherwise.

IMO, the proper "moderation" for that thread (if it even needed any) would have been to move it to the community forum, since it was, after all, kinda OT, and not entirely a Poser thing, not to just lock it.

Oh well, fuck it. ;-)