[merk]

Originally Posted by Brad.loo

I removed the thread and I did so because of the flame war that was already underway and was only going to get wrose. Ive seen threads like these to many times, and it was just opening sore wounds within the community.

I made the call to remove it soley, no one on the staff was around at the time and I felt like it needed to be delt with asap.

So the way to deal with a status update "flame war" is to remove the entire thread and not to moderate peoples posts?

Okay.

[high]* merk writes into moderators handbook for his forums
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ps- Thankyou for at least clarifying the position for that particular thread. Maybe you want to make sure filbert1 doesnt jump the gun with an incorrect reason next time.