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just now deleted a relatively new thread about moderation, and I'm seriously thinking of going back and deleting ALL of the former threads dealing with moderation, just so they can't be resurrected.


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i cannot believe censorship such as that can do any good whatsoever - for any party involved

imo mods should ensure that the various forums' threads are "on topic"; that they don't include libellous comments; that they aren't full of swearwords; that personal insults aren't allowed; and that they aren't spam or adverts

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That's what I thought too, but the last few weeks have been chock-full of threads and posts by a small hard-core group of "anti-MMMMMM'ers" and "anti-moderation" posters. I dealt with it rationally and leniently and ebteredd into many discussionms about it, and the better long-term posters sucxh as Andy Focx took my side. However the small hard-core "anti" group never relented in their attacks and it is a big time-consuming burden to this day.

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the threads that are "borderline" (in our individual opinions) either dissolve naturally into nothing, or become "hot" - which latter result indicates that they are of interest for one reason or another to the readers of the particular forum

if readers are not "notifying mod", then i believe that we should always be most hesitant in stepping in and deciding what should or should not be read

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I agree, and that's the way I was dealing with everything. But, what would you do if for weeks a group (of mostly new posters) continued to attack you and attack moderation and generally clogged up the forums with this tripe, beyond an initially reasonable period for discussion? That's what has happened and it's not an acceptable thing to have continue.

For one thing, I just really don't have the time to defend my moderation every time I turn around. On your forum I expect the attacks upon you are less, but on the Politics Forum I have been called everything from a Grand Dragon of the KKK to someone who advocates violence against Americans to you-name-it--and all by posters who vehemently disagree with my political views. The name-calling isn't the biggest issue though; it's the constant renewal of attacks on my moderation (which up to this time has been very lenient). I don't have time to defend it repeatedly, and I can't imagine it's good for the forum, and I don't see any solution other than what Dynasty suggested.

The people attacking are not swayed by reason or by observing reasonable moderating. They just want me out of there because they hate my views and they are apparently bound and determined to make my duties as a moderator as difficult as possible. A couple do have legitimate concerns about moderation as a concept in itself, but the rest of it is basically veiled attacks against my moderation for partisan reasons and to make things difficult. Their actions and words far drown out the much greater majority who think I have done a good job, and continuing to respond to them is costing me too much time. If I were getting paid for this it might be different but I really can't just devote unlimited time to defending my stances and actions as moderator.

So, I really don't know what else to do other than take Dynasty's suggestion...