personally, i don't mind that the thread was locked. the people who didn't like the record had said their bit, and sven and amok responded. other people who were discussing loops in techno moved on to a more targeted thread in the techno forum. the thing went for 10 pages. mark wanted to start a positive thread about sven.

i fail to see why any of this is such a big deal.

time to move on! there's plenty of other things to gripe about. ;)