OK, so:
*Thread about the VIta dying (someone's opinion!)=locked.
*Thread about preferences in female anatomical features: unlocked.
Now, I'm not going to get into the vagaries of judging what threads are a bad reflection on the site, but any *sane* person would have to concede that if you're truly worried* about the site's rep, you're going to axe the second one *before* you axe the first one, and yet...
More laughably: a site based on *sales* of games and consoles, to some degree or another, is *locking* threads based on something entirely germane to its very existence, i.e. the sales, or lack thereof, of games and/or consoles.
*You're not: you're abusing your ability as a mod to stifle debate because you don't like the way it's going, which makes the OP 100% correct.