Kevin, Jeremy: I stated that I had no idea about the financials of LuLa and no interest. If you see my post in reply to Slobodan's you'll note that I put my name to thanking you for the way you moderated.
To those who complained about the content of the political threads: nobody asked you to read 'em; if you were unable to tear your eyes away from the slow train-crash, thank yourselves for lingering to watch. Why would you give a fig when you were under no obligation to play? Others, however, as the quantity of posting shows, enjoyed the tussle immensely.
Has it struck none of you complainers just how proscriptive you come across as being? You want to deny others a legal pleasure you can't share.
And you know what? You proved that if you bitch enough, you can do a lot of harm to freedoms that were legitimate.
Now, Kevin, unless my grey cells are more pale than I thought, wasn't it you who wrote that you had been having bad vibes come your way from sources that provide support to LuLa? That sounds like business pressures to me, probably far more worthy of attention than any from the neo-puritans here who are just civilians, exactly as am I.
Of course I understand nothing is for nothing; I ran a business too. As I have often stated, the site belongs to the owners to do with as they wish. That's sacrosanct - as far as finance permits! That said, I'd feel very disappointed that, if there have been no external business pressures to do as you have done (to close specific debates) you have then acted solely because of pressures from the politically correct amongst us. I kind of ask myself what some of them have offered LuLa in the past that makes them feel they have a right to force change.
I may be missing something, but I don't seem able to think of many complainants who have actually written very much worth reading or even just written very much about anything; as for posting images... so, armchair warriors. Maybe I just need to wear my specs more, but who exactly are we missing today because of political threads? I can name some damned good photographers who just had enough and picked up their tents and vanished, but it had nothing to do with political threads!
For the record: my own contributions to the naughty threads has been pretty slim, all things considered, because it doesn't interest me all that much; but it does interest me when people want to crush what others enjoy, and I'm pretty sure that sans our ultra-vocal whited sepulchres united in song, life would have continued perfectly happily with the fizzy stuff being splashed about in the political bath without harming anyone at all.
Just an opinion.