Btw the reason we locked that thread was because.
1. There was an odd comment here and there which did lean too much into celebrating Kirk's death.
2. The thread wasn't generating anything good, half of the site is at each others throats and we're heading towards a split.
3. The thread was starting to push users away from the site, there was an example right before the lock.
4. The thread was full of "LEFT WING VIOLENCE AT IT AGAIN/THE LEFT ARE SO VIOLENT" accusations with zero proof.
Quite frankly, if it was actually Moderated, I could see reasons to Moderate a lot of users in that thread, then we'd have people bitching at us for that instead (and ironically, another example of how relaxed our moderating is lately). We are far too relaxed with #4 in particular, that is users posting inflammatory accusations with zero evidence in highly sensitive thread, we are well within the rules to moderate people for that, and I'm seeing too much of this lately, "I heard XYZ but I don't know if it's true" "XYZ DID IT!" with no evidence.
