Moderation

Like a good football referee, a good moderator is one you hardly notice unless one or two people get really out of hand. Unless it's a technical thread and it's interfering with serious answers, I honestly couldn't care less if people want to hijack my threads, particularly the humourous, curious or just plain philosophical ones. Often times people hijacking my threads end up making a much more interesting conversation than I had started, so good for them. I for one wouldn't want some kind of military regime with people giving name rank and serial number in response to my question. If I wanted that much control over a subject ( again, technical help threads aside, because I don't like to see someone with a serious question they need answering subjected to five or six consecutive dopy posts demanding the media or telling people to kneel before their God - no names! ) I wouldn't post to an open forum which has people with free will and minds of their own.