The problem is that if another person starts a new thread on the same topic, there's nothing to stop the posters who caused problems on the first, closed thread from creating the exact same troubles on the new thread. It's rarely one member that causes a whole thread to be closed -- it's the tone and direction the conversation is taking.

We will look into suspending certain members from that forum if we find it's the same members creating the issues... but to-date, that hasn't been the case.

We will also look into again limiting political and other types of rancorous discussions in that forum, since those topics seem to be the most volatile and the ones that cause everyone the most hurt.

Best,
DocJohn