<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">One improvement would be to close out postings that drift into nonsense after a week or so on the board.</font>
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't what you suggest just pure and simple censorship?
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> One board that surely shows improvement in quality is the Community Board, moderated by essxjay; more of this kind of sanity and literacy would be welcome.
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Without construing this as a comment on
essxjay's performance, abilities, etc. as a moderator, the FT Community board has never been one where there has been any frequency of off-topic posts.