ADMIN NOTE:

The forum Terms of Service (TOS) allow us to "remove any post for any reason" although we attempt to provide a venue to allow controversial and unpopular opinions to be shared.

There are some threads that clearly shouldn't be public and are removed without question (SSI, for example). Others are more subjective and moderators are many times asked to become referees in an opinion war.

This thread, despite the decidedly controversial tact in the original post, was a ray of hope for me as an admin. Instead of watching users going down the zero sum path of answering a colorful opinion with flames. Users diffused the assertions with facts in a (mostly) lucid, responsible, and credible manor. Its a breath of fresh air, thank you.

APC as a community, will stand of fall on the ability of users to post rational responses in the face of....um, passionate, diatribes. THAT, is the ultimate form of moderation.

Thanks