Wow, What a waste of seven pages (and my nights sleep), but at least people are caring about the community.

The thread in question has been continuously been off topic and the source of much flaming. For me, the behavior there more so than the topic is unbecoming of the community. It is also clear that this topic has offended some people. I am in agreement with the locking of the topic.
The topic will remain locked.


There seems to be some articulated debate going on here and not the usual flaming i would have expected so this topic will remain unlocked for now.