The news section is always fraught with fierce debate and personal opinion. I try my best to let threads run their course so that people can debate like reasonable adults.
The anonymous nature of the internet tends to bring out the worst in people, but I believe that the majority of AnswerBank users are above that.
Please don't abuse my trust in letting a thread run its course by turning it into a slanging match, otherwise we'll have to be much harsher in our judgements when it comes to post removals and suspensions.
Ah, but that registers no differently from soneone who simply wandered off for a cuppa and a sit down - as i have witnessed previously.
I was wondering about the whereabots of one particular poaster who had been absent for a fewe days, when bam! four or five threads straight after each other - so sometimes people are just occupied doing other things.