That is a probably a good motto of the moderating that happens occasionally here. For the most part, the view is to allow anyone, including those who adhere to zany views about taxes and sovrun lifestyles, get to have their say. But this has its limits, in that we are not going to simply allow these same people to make outlandish claims about how successful they have been with their pet theory without backing it up - nor are they allowed to just post to harass the site or pepper the regulars here with insincere questions and knowing they have no intention to engage in intellectual honesty.LordEd wrote:Everything in moderation, including moderating?
There have been a few - David Merrill Van Pelt, as example - who didn't want to be intellectually honest, and eventually wore out their welcome here. Nowadays we tend to have less patience than in the days of yore and the welcome mat gets jerked out from them underneath sooner rather than later, but only after they get fair warning and what they have to do to keep their posting privileges; not all end up being banned, but can lose some ability to start threads or to edit posts. I think we can count the number of people actually banned on both hands, and still have some fingers left over. I think that would be a significant indicator on how much moderation is performed here and the high quality of posts that exist.
There have been others who have been outright banned for reprehensible posts that had to deal with sordid behavior, and we removed some members who were taking liberties with topics regarding political and religious issues to the point that racism, harassment, and vicious insulting was driving away quality people who came here to learn and share information on the scammer/TP/sovrun world. This is why political and religious topics are no longer allowed on the site and while some saw this as drastic, it turned around the perception of the site and we started getting quality posters back.
