OK so, I don't know any of the background to this thread. I dunno who's in the right or in the wrong. But way I see it, it doesn't matter.
The dark side is a part of bluelight which is generally intended for support, that doesn't mean of course that sometimes well intentioned support can't be taken badly, or that people can't offer constructive criticism. But it would be best if you have more potentially hurtful criticism, you save it for the lounge.
As for the question of who "owns" a thread, or who's expected to control it. Technically the staff control them. The creater has a little bit more control since they have the power to delete their starting post, and the entire thread with it. However even that has occasionally been reversed by the staff when it was felt that the conversation was constructive and that it'd be better to just manually remove the creators posts rather than the whole thing.
@JoEhJoEh
I'm not super familiar with the blogs system. But if you wish to write thoughts that are just put out there with no desire for people to reply, that would probably be the place. I'm not sure.
Regardless, it seems to me that this particular thread is not in keeping with dark sides purpose. So I'm going to lock it. JoEhJoEh as you started the thread, let me know if you'd rather just see it deleted and I'd be happy to do that.
Id like to remind everyone though that flaming on the dark side is actually against the rules for this part of the site. It doesn't really matter how deserved it might be.