Originally Posted by
essxjay
Different sense and referent. (But you knew that.

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"... the forums they moderate." Better?
I suppose. But I still submit that it ought to be up to the posters in a forum to decide if they'd like to
use a moderation thread than up to that forum's moderators to decide if they'd like to
have a moderation thread in that forum.
I still have not seen a down-side articulated to giving all (active) forums' posters the opportunity of using a moderation thread.