is that the rules are simple. A thread may be locked because it is "off topic." (And if you look in the locking message - that is what it says - it was locked because it was off topic.) That says to me that you started with the question, "Is the discussion of interest to the LGBT community?" (That is the purpose of the group).
The locking statement says that HillWilliam decided it was not of interest (and via the petition process that the rest of you reached the same conclusions - the answer is "No."
Based on the broad participation in the discussion (more than in any other thread) by the LGBT community, I was having difficulty understanding how you reached the conclusion that it was not of interest to the LGBT community. I asked for a clear statement of why the discussion is not of interest to the LGBT community, and have not been given an answer. (I have been given other explanations about why it might not be good to have this discussion now - but the thread was not locked for those reasons - and it isn't clear to me that they even could be within the rules of DU3.)
If my opinion is so different from the hosts about what is of interest to the LGBT community, then we really need some guidelines to help the hosts make decisions that aren't just going to make everyone angry because they seem so arbitrary.
On the other hand - if that question was never answered, perhaps it is just clearer guidelines that are needed as to the steps to go through before locking a thread for being "off topic."
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