Originally Posted by Jenbel

majorwibi - I think you are too new onto FT to understand that 'simple moderation' and 'OMNI' don't go well together. Moderators on that forum burned out at a scary rate, so Randy took it on himself. Basically, all of the screaming, shouting and overdramatics we've seen throughout this debate used to occur pretty much everytime a moderator took a decision someone didn't like, and Randy would be appealed to it seemed like on every occasion, usually with the claim that the moderator was politically biased. I wasn't a mod back then, just a frequenter of the forum who used to watch the popcorn threads, but it was not a good situation - and I don't believe that anything much would have changed, particularly since the residents are used to a rather loser interpretation of the TOS than the rest of the board gets...