Don't feed the animals...

[Mat Sklansky]

Moderation on this site from the beginning has been criticised. People wanted more and less and different. Now that there are 40+ user mods, I don't want detractors of the site to be able to link to threads in an effort to illustrate how [censored] up they think moderation is.

That's the downside for me and the company. Even if you think this is not an actual potential problem, unless you can provide some real benefits to moderators attacking one another's ability to moderate in the other forums, the rule stays in effect.