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Old 29th May 2012, 9:22 am   #314
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Originally Posted by PJL View Post
The attraction of this forum is the governance that keeps threads on topic. If the content all ended up like this thread I doubt anyone would use the forum. This is a community and we need rules to live in harmony.
I totally agree, although reading this thread, a significant minority of members would appear to feel that some aspects of the moderation is too strict and/or un-necessary at the moment.

Speaking as someone who was very briefly a moderator, the amount of work the mods do behind the scenes is absolutely immense, and we all owe them a great deal of thanks for giving up significant amounts of time to help the forum run smoothly.

Like others, I do feel that there are ways that the load on the mods could be lightened without adversely affecting the smooth running of the forum e.g. by turning a blind eye to all but the worst spelling and grammatical errors, and spending less time archiving, now that the excellent Google search function is in place.

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