Making a decision to moderate posts involves subjective decisions, such as what is constructive, what is appropriate and what is decent. You can't please everybody, and you don't need even to try to please trolls. Ghost, Lizard, Thai Br: You have done a nice job of proving my point. Your posts rapidly spiral down into childish exchanges of invective and profanity.
I've actually been criticized for not enough moderation. There have been several private message complaints about ghost, Thai Br and falcon, and the people who have made these complaints carry some weight because of their large number of constructive posts. I'm persuaded by this point of view and could make some recommendations to Tim and Ryanhall to siteban a couple of trolls. That would improve things. Moderators have been out on summer vacation, so the quorum for a consensus decision has not yet occurred.
Finally, there are some cases where we do the moderation offline through E-mail or via private messages. This is generally the case for two conditions: 1) For people who are mature enough to reason with, or 2) Where there are organizational politics or personnel issues that are best handled with care. Where this is the case you won't get the full context.
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