I think they kept it open because there were some people who tried to get it back on topic and get the fighting to stop. Also, when a mod posted, people were already posting things that were on topic.
I was asleep. Lol (I woke a couple of hours ago.) I fell asleep very early today. When I woke up, I had 5 notifications. (2 were visitor messages, 3 PMs) Someone told me to go check it out. So I clicked on the link, I read from page 5 to the last page. I'm surprised that thread wasn't locked. At least we were able to get it back on topic. (I just posted there by the way. It's a very long post. XD)
It was terrible. All there was was insults and cursing left or right. And people warned him he would get banned, and he seemed okay with getting banned too. I'm never going to forget that. I wish you could have experienced the idiocy first hand.
I just finished reading it. lol It's the "Why I think HGSS won't meet expectations" one. The guy who was insulting everyone got banned. I think he felt embarrassed that he was being proven wrong which is why he began to lash out at others.