Advice on Moderating OOT

[Dynasty]

In his PMs to me, Mat's comments about me moderating OOT were the bare essentials. He said:

You would have no obligation to do anything; the option would simply be at your disposal.

and

Please do not abuse this or these privileges may be revoked.

Despite a few goofy comments in other threads earlier tonight, I obviously have no intention of being an "OOT Overlord". I intend to take moderator actions only when they are appropriate and when they support the type of environment we want here in OOT.

I've mentioned to Mat that the main problems I've seen in OOT over the last few months are (1) threads created soley to insult other posters, (2) duplicate threads, and (3) threads about poker.

I'd like feedback from posters if they also think these are problems with OOT which should be subject to my weapon of choice:

The heavy duty actions (like banning posters) is something I'm leaving to Mat. I won't be banning anybody other than obvious spammers (like our religous friend of the past week).