I'm posting this for everyone, so if a specific part of your post wasn't addressed, PM me.
When the community is all for the action, then we have no problem putting action against them. WE've done things like this in the past in the various Regional Zones for the same reasons: A bunch of people are messing around, acting stupidly, don't care about infractions, and are encouraged by the community. Yes, it is unfortunate that some people are affected by the closure who were not messing around, but there's not a lot we can do about it.
Again, had it not been that a significant portion of the thread was encouraging the behaviour this would not have occured (I have actually received PM's from some thanking for taking action in the hope that it'll curb some people's actions)
@Zajice: I actually made a point of telling him that that stuff was not on when he had that stuff (he had been encouraging people to post on his profile, and had been doing it himself too)