For the record -- none of those people are me. I'm saying that the party shouldn't have had posters up, and that, other than that, everything else was tacky at worst, and, now that I'm understanding where they're coming from, I don't even feel quite that.

I'm not certain where anyone said the party should have been closed down -- "closed", yes -- but I saw that in the sense of "closed party", not "closed down party".