• Appoint a senior, paid, moderator to oversea all moderation actions and complaints who reports directly to the CD and is not considered part of the volunteer moderator corps.
• Rotate moderators through all the forums, just as the senior moderators are rotated in and out of that role
• Create a forum much like the old "Ask Randy Peterson" forum
• Get rid of the lounge threads. IMHO, they were created in the M&P fora when Omni was a single forum and people didn't want to see or deal with some of the nonsense there. Now there are 2- lite & PR and lite should go back to being FT's Living Room where all members go to shoot the breeze. Remove the access requirement and let everyone enter it. The community will be better for it. I would never have met some people had it not been for Omni because we frequented different fora.
• Review the purpose behind the Talk Board. When FT was young, it was a way discuss improvements to the community. Well, FT is pretty mature now, and they're bickering more than improving. Just look at how few people even bother to vote. It can become a popularity contest where all people from one forum (see the lounge threads) get together to vote in one of their own. How is that representative of the community?
• How about some more mega-Dos???

A lot has been posted about moderation in this thread - there are some very good ones and very bad ones. And it's easy to tell. If people felt differently you wouldn't have so many comments about it. When you encounter a bad one, well, there's really no place to complain, and the optics to everyone else are really bad. Mods are human too, and as such, have good days, bad days, biases, and preferences. That's why I suggest a paid super moderator as a stop gap and an offical place to complain. While you can appeal to the CD, well, she's got more important things to do than police the mod corps. And sometimes they need policing too.

I really enjoyed the old FT - the camaraderie and friendships that were made. That seems to have pretty much stopped, and for the life of me, the only things I can cite is the fracturing of the community into their own fora and not participating in other areas of FT. Heck, I saw a few posters say that the purpose of FT is for MSing (I kid you not). The demographics have changed and some of the old timers simply are tired of dealing with it and them.