Moderation is generally a problem on every forum, and definitely not specific to flyertalk (and the ones on here, at least of the ones I've seen on the forums I look at, aren't bad at all). There's a certain balance...yeah, you don't want a forum to degrade into a free-for-all, but some moderators figure that this is going to be as close as they're going to get to winning an election, so they're going to make the most of it.