I always figured that even if you don’t see a “bad” post, what happend was that a poster posted a “bad” post and the mod obviously didn’t post it and, since the mod realizes that this thread is heading in a negative direction the mod nips it in the bud and closes it. It probably is olny after turning down a few negative post on the same thread since, there always a looney out there and I don’t think they would ruin it for the crowd because of one kook. Now, since they don’t post it, you don’t even get to see what went wrong. However, usually you can tell from the previous posts what posters could have submitted that would make sense to shut it down, instead of “fighting” the posters.
Ok, its not up for debate, but I still think an explanation would be good, because sometimes its not clear why. Perhaps the points could be debated using different examples, perhaps you just can’t be so explicit/offensive etc. Don’t want to risk upseting the mods by reopening the debate elsewhere in a different way, without knowing what bothered them!
But the thread about Rabanim and common sense – I mean, don’t open the topic. The conversation actually started getting Halachic, and THEN they close it. Huh ?