It kind of makes no sense when the actions of one or two people who could have been warned would have been better rather than closing the thread on the vast majority of well behaved users
I am referring to the recently closed thread in the lounge. And sometimes things get really really inconsistent with the mods. I experienced this inconsistency first hand several months ago when bizarrely the Islamaphobia thread was never closed despite deep insults flying on and on and on.... almost forever, but approximately the same time @frob quickly shut down a thread I started, after some mild queries, adding a bizarre note with the closure. I went into a fury of PMs with frob and Josh, but i'm not here to dig up that pandora box again ....
... but only to suggest that in cases like the recently closed thread in the lounge where only one or two people were using insulting words - wouldn't it have been better to warn or eject those involved since the majority of contributors in the thread were well behaved?