I am very sorry you was the latest victim of thread trashing, this thing has been going on for sometime and good threads like yours get closed as the odd one cant keep to the forum rules..
Its not your fault so don't let this put you off this lovely site.
Looking back it should have been reported to the mods before it got out of hand people don't like being told to get in line that when they get defensive..
Don't let it put you off..:)