This look more like a question of what the moderator think about the thread, or what actual goes on in the thread. ok some minute ago i was going through some topics in the programming forum and i saw an interesting topic "JAVA BOOKS THAT ARE NOT GOOD FOR A BEGINNER" i found it interesting because i think they are all good books but some are not good for beginner. but to my surprise the thread was closed after only few people posted, it got me wondering and i remember i have seen something like that before. i use to think maybe the moderator actually does that when he discover that the argument are getting out of hand. please nairalander what do you think? or how do you see?