I'd like to start by saying I'm extremely agitated by the action of a staff member trashing my whole thread just because a few members got caught up in an argument.

You could have just trashed their posts and those mentioning the argument, which would be like 8 posts max. Instead, you trashed the entire thread.
I feel like you trashed my thread just because you didn't like me or my topic, not because of rules or anything.

You know you could have trashed the posts instead. If this were to happen in an important sticky whatsoever made by you, you wouldn't react in the same way. Explain please.
I'd also like to know who trashed it.

Thank you.