I don't know whether or not Jerry or Bob would bother to verify this, but it seems to me that an occasional slip that results in a post getting bombed for being inappropriate is a far cry from posting repeated inflammatory or malicious stuff that's only intended to stir things up.

This isn't the friggin' public library, it's a private forum and it's owner CAN limit what we see and say. It's up to us to decide if we want to live with that.

Personally, I prefer moderated boards. This one is actually pretty loosely moderated compared to another one that I frequent, and it's got 32k+ registered members and over a thousand that have contributed financially to its existence.

Moderated does NOT necessarily equal bad or even unpopular.