Right, I've held off saying anything till now as i shouldnt have to justify why i asked the thread to be closed (except to the moderators which i did so). However here goes.....
I started the Hurwitz thread as a lighthearted endeavour. I was curious what people thought of his videos and was interested to hear the thoughts of others (both positive and negative). At first all went well, then it got a little heated and finally the thread started to die a natural death as those who had something to say had said it. However, in the past month (and from the beginning tbh) its mainly been home to one particular member's obsessive anti-Hurwitz rants. As a result the thread had become a joke, a kind of Monty Python Argument sketch with a rather toxic, finger-pointing atmosphere and some "I'm having the last word because im right" statements. Discussions about the content had become irrelevant and it had turned into a character-assasination thread of the kind that i did not want anything to do with. This was NOT what I had intended at the outset. It was also being bumped with inflammatory statements designed to goad others into childish arguments. I resisted several requests from friends / other posters to ask for the thread to be closed, hoping that it would die a natural death but some people wouldnt lie it die. In the end the thread did not reflect my intentions so (giving my reasons) I asked the mods to politely close the thread understanding they may say no. The fact they did, for me, justifies my view that the thread had run its course and had become nasty, toxic and absolutely nothing new was being said.
I dont see the problem, tbh. A new thread was started and the new one will no doubt continue with the same trolling bumps, inflammatory statements and derailment and that's fine by me but dont get me involved.
