First of all, you need to read the rules. Two wrongs don't make a right, but what you did was incite mob reaction against another member of the forum. It doesn't matter that Daniel is a moderator; he is still one of your fellow TGO members. I've clearly stated that anarchy will NOT be tolerated.
TGO is not a democracy, the same way that the Marine Corps is not a democracy. If you feel that a superior officer is in the wrong in the Corps, it would be completely insubordinate to start a poll among your peers asking if they think the guy is wrong and what should be done about it. There is a chain of command that must be followed in order to ensure that some sense of decorum is kept. Am I right?
As for everyone else...
Frankly the components of the way this discussion has unfolded are a little difficult to make a blanket ruling on. It would be nice if all of you could be adults and play nicely with each other even when you disagree. So do I think that a secondary discussion should have been started and then locked so that no one else could reply? Not really. But do I see why it was done? Yes.
I guess the problem here is that some of you feel that there was an imbalance of power since none of you can start a thread, state your opinion and then lock the thread so that no one can argue against it. It's sad that anyone feels they have to do that in order to get their point across without someone else [not naming names but you know who you are] coming in behind them and mucking it all up.
So I see a lot of things wrong here. For the sake of being fair, I'm electing to not do anything about any of it. The entire thing is a bit of a cluster-fk so you guys can sort it all out, shake hands and be men about the whole thing. It might help some if you all would try to see where each other is coming from on some of these issues and stop being so purely reactive to what's being said and focus on what was intended.
But... this is the Internet and that never happens. Monkeys will likely fly out of my ass before people stop arguing on forums.
Enjoy.