Yes, it is.
We’ve had Obituary threads for the 20 years I’ve been on here. We’ve run at least two polls over that time to assess what people wanted from them after a few were locked due to outright nastiness and the forum overwhelmingly has decided on all occasions that those are the rules for these threads.
The forum has decided that these threads are not negative ones and that if people want to have a rant about a dead person then they should go create a separate thread for them. We even upheld that rule when Thatcher died, not a single nasty or negative comment on Thatcher was posted on the Obit thread at the time, the Thatcher death gloating thread was a shame on the forum but it was a lively one..
For my own personal view, I’m delighted at the forum view on this. It’s nice to have at least one thread on the forum where people can come and be fairly sure they’re not going to get sucked into vile, bitter or outrageous posts. It’s also somewhere people can come and post about their own personal losses without the inherent tribalism of social media.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Think of it this way, would you go to someone’s funeral and publicly whine about the dead person while grieving people are around? Why not treat this thread like the waiting area to a funeral? If you want to rant about someone, go create a thread, don’t do it here.