FYI, I am reading these. I just don't have the time to craft a post by post response right now.

I am taking into consideration all the posts/pm's and emails. Most are well reasoned and I appreciate it.

Two points I would like to make really quickly:

1) Moderating, by it's very nature, is going to be subjective. Some mods simply have thicker skin than others. This is neither good nor bad.. it just is. Some issues will really push certain moderator's buttons while others couldn't care less. Some will find a photo 'too racy', others will delete threads for content when I might just scratch my head and wonder what the fuss is about. The only thing we hope for is that we can find some semblance of consistency... which we are working on.

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Nope. A couple bad apples ruined it for everyone else. The Admins had enough of it. "

This is an example of the subjectiveness. I don't really see a problem with this answer. However, I guess given some past history with a moderator it could be taken as 'snippy'.

2) Sometimes a thread or post (or user) is deleted without an explanation because none is needed. By the time a problem gets to the point where I have to step in, I am likely to employ a scorched earth policy rather than reading through 50 pages of posts and users' histories. This is why users need to work with the moderators a little better and avoid it becoming an admin issue. Having said that.. we are going try to give you guys/gals better feedback about why/what we're doing. This whip cracking is going both ways on this.

If you have a moderation question for the admins please use [email protected] .

Thanks!