Personally I find the DB forum very cultivate (well, it is true I do not read much of the hunting section, so it may be different there). I just remember one guy having a post removed for profanity in a hunting ethic thread a few weeks ago, and he indeed deserved it.
However, in this case - and I believe it was triggered by
the post of diversharm in the suicide thread - in fact I did not find it offensive or profane at all. Not even impolite, just little bit too categoric and baseless. That's why I replied to it quietly reasoning with my arguments, and so did some others too. Frankly told, Erik, I was more surprised by your overreaction and a rather aggressive answer, than by the post itself. I do not think that the comment deserved so harsh rebuke. It did not offend anyone, just expresses his opinion in a categoric but still polite and decent form. I would not like to see this forum turning into a heavily censored police district with no possibility of arguing with each other.
I understood very well you locking the thread about Pipin - the legal reasons are well comprehensible, but in this case I believe you let you blow away by your administrative role too far. Yes, I am happy for the moderating entries in the DB threads, but firmly believe that the moderator should stay what it calls - moderate: strict but decent, polite and dampening emotions instead of driving them up. Simply, making the best example of cultivate communication.
That told, I value very highly your work here on the forum, and never had any reservations before this case - and I would not even tell anything if you did not start this thread after rebuking that guy.
Thanks for your comprehension and sorry for reharshing it publicly here
