Originally Posted by RKG
Just out of curiosity, where did you get the 99.96% number? How do you know that many more people agree with the alleged ".04%", but are just not vocal about it. Perhaps they see what happens to posters that do ask "unpopular" questions. Perhaps they do not have time. Perhaps they have more important things in their lives...
Just an observation.
Like 78% of all statistics, I made it up.
The number of 40,000 active FTers has been thrown around. There are about 10 vocal critics of moderation that frequent this forum. Hence 99.96% is in the ballpark.
IMHO, if this place were moderated with more of an "iron fist" (like another travel related BBS I know of), I think there would be fare more complaints than are being emitted by the current vocal minority.
Again, I base this on the fact that outside of a few contentious boards (Travel/Safety, OMNI, ORP), most moderators are largely invisible.
You're welcome to agree or disagree.