[mick pinner]

the recent thread re GS R/C price war has been closed.
the removal of posts seen as vendor bashing l have no problem with, the fact that the thread was branching out and covering a couple of different topics but still related in general to the scope in question, big deal.
the people who were participating in the thread seemed to have no problem with any of the discussion taking place of which Mike was not one, l also had an off site discussion with Peter Ward that cleared up a few issues of interest to me which was brought about by this thread.
this was a very informative discussion and should have been left to follow it's course, why moderation was needed l fail to see, l am interested in other peoples opinions on this matter if indeed this is an open forum.
this is NOT moderation bashing just a complete lack of understanding on my part as to why this happened.