<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SuperSlug:
nologic, you nailed it.
It appears to me that many FT "elders" take our posts/discussion to mean that we don't want moderators, period." Nothing could be further from the truth; but since they were around when all the "trouble," whatever it was, started, the automatic, rote response seems to then be, "you're wrong, period."
Who in their right mind would deny the need for moderation of flame wars, personal attacks, etc.? Not me. Not many.
What this debate has boiled down to is not whether moderators are needed (that's a given, assuming they're here to keep things civilized), but, now that moderators are here, the method of moderation, and the attitudes of those doing the moderating. Those are two very fair topics, IMO--and ones you don't need to be an "elder statesman" to debate, as they affect all of us on the boards today.
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Precise and explicit Well done SuperSlug