I can't speak for others here but certainly when I said "just delete it" I meant that being the original moderating decision rather than a post-edit after thought... that thread continued and we've now lost the thoughts that Meat shared re the new show and where he plans to take it
Respect, rudeness, attacks...it's all subjective, what I find offensive the next person may not and so I appreciate it can be difficult to deal with "offensive posts" because not everyone is offended by them, but I really feel that threads just need to be allowed to run . Obviously there's the odd post that will be unacceptable without question, but this "cleaning up" of posts to make a new thread, to me, is daft.
Let's keep them open (we are all meant to be adults here after all) and if it really gets so bad then shut them.