If people stopped treating it as a thread to say stupid shit and used it as a way to resolve disputes started in other thread, it would serve its purpose. However, it is doing just what I thought it would. It it taking those disputes out of an area where there are peers trying to mediate and bring the discussion back, resulting in a free for all where everyone blurts out stupid complaints and whines, and there aren't well-wishing people trying to push the discussion back to sanity.
The solution? Go back to an environment with peer regulation and no moderator.
Sure, people say stupid shit. They're people. I say stupid shit. I would however like to think that most of the time my comments, however vulgar or offensive, are pertinent to the topic at hand. Or, at the very least, I am making clear my annoyance with a person or a person's comment because his posts or opinions are illogical or ridiculous. Maybe I'm doing so in an ad-hominem way or a way that is offensive to a degree, but that's my personality. You deal with offensive people all the time in life, deal with it, that's my way of making a point.
What we need is to get rid of the moderator and let people sort themselves out. Having an administrator is all we need, someone to respond if people complain about a person who is being obscenely offensive (as I have been warned by Briv before), someone to delete the occassional spam that pops up. What we don't need is an obnoxious parent-like figure breathing down our necks, however well-intentioned he may be.
