Reply To: simple question: who decides when to close a thread?

To answer most of the above posters, clearly, if the comments contain unacceptable material, such as obscenities and (on this website) an open challenge to halocho (such as saying , for example, that we don’t need a mechitzah in a shul) it can be suppressed. My question is about comments that do not ,under any circumstances, contain something as objectionable as the above but only contain people’s own impressions and,often, specific valid halachic opinuions, what posesses a moderator to close it?

For example, we had a very long and very heated discussions ome time ago about ther satmarer shittah and zionism- the comments kept on coming (often rather heated) yet the thread was never closed. Just a day ago, a poster commented on the selichos by jehuda green this past motzei shabbos and it was almost summarily closed. Why?