You know what I don't care , its their job to clean the topics , thats why they are global mods if they can't do their jobs they should quit.They shouldn't have locked it in the first place they should have just banned all that stupid people who flamed , it wasn't the topic that caused the problems but the people.
I mean if a topic is fine and some stupid guy comes and flames repeatedly , then what do you do?You ban the guy.
You don't delete the topic.