Dave, I agree that the moderators should have banned people more than closing the lounge to political and religious discussions. But sometimes web communities just go sour and they need some time to let the silly, evil trolls move on to infect some other community. I'm starting to see that was the case here -- perhaps they couldn't have banned enough people, and because some people were sneaking back with new aliases, it was a fool's errand to try to ban all the a-holes.
My comments were not aimed at you in particular and in general I'm sympathetic to what you're saying other than to remind you, "Please don't feed the trolls" (and they will go away.) By giving them so much attention, it just perpetuates the bad scene.
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