Thread:Gen. Grievous1138/@comment-32338562-20170701172418/@comment-26172435-20170701183550

In the suggestions forum, it is in fact at the discretion of moderators to intervene without the discretion of original posters. If we would have to ask all original posters for their approval before editing their first post in order to guide the course of events following a threads posting, or intervene on them by closing them for good reason, we would have to spend at least double our voluntary time in moderating that forum. That would be very undesirable, and consequently we deem it acceptable to empower moderators in this board to act accordingly, so without the discretion of the original poster. Of course, to many that feels as very inconvenient and restrictive, but that's exactly what our suggestions forum rules were meant to do: reduce needless noise and encourage focus by limiting degrees of freedom.

In regards to other staff objecting against my decisions:

That was evidently the case when I first stepped in. Not all objected, but at least three who spoke out, all of them involved in the off topic discussion. After my second intervention, which I also explained and motivated in staff Facebook chat (involving all staff members actively involved in moderating the suggestions forum), no colleague objected.