Unfortunately, when I parented up, I felt that some people were entering the conversation trying to create wank. We occasionally exchange notes with the kinkmeme mods, so we know that they have a Patrick Kane troll, and we suspect that they occasionally raise their heads here. There was enough in the thread that I made the judgment call to freeze the thread and cool deke's jets, so to speak.

Obviously we don't want to freeze entire threads the moment someone acts like a jerk -- jerks would quickly take advantage of any such policy, and it would impede discussion on a discussion platform -- but in this case I felt that the thread warranted freezing instead of, for example, screening individual comments + turning IP logging back on, which is something else we'll do when we have a wanky thread. It's a judgment call, not a cemented policy that allows namecalling jerks to shut down all future civil discourse on meme.