I hear what you are saying. I quit visiting a forum for heavy moderation and other moderator interference. The thing you have to realize is this forum has no moderator. We moderate it ourselves by being civil and respectful of others viewpoints. THe only reason that thread was pulled is that someone here made a complaint. So there is no big bad moderator, just a guy who responded to a complaint. IF the complaint is valid, and in this case it was( off topic from tanks) the moderator pulls out the rule book, acts and goes away until they hear another complaint from us THe discussion in this thread expresses opinions and viewpoints, that perhaps will make a the next devaition a little more tolerable. IF you reported this to a moderator it would be gone, because it too is in violation. There is no moderation if no one reports.

So your issue is not with a moderator. Your issue is with a forum member. It wasn't me, but I bet if you titled the thread, "none tank related other interest thread" it still would be here. You would have had enough information on the the subject line to draw in only those that would be interested in this type of thing. There is a member here who must have a very strong opinion on this, otherwise the thread would still be up.

There are lots of other tanker forums out there., I visited most of them, I always come back here, for the simple reason you have very good modelers, get intelligent debate, and oh the irony of this one, little moderation!!!!!


Dan