I think it really is just how our world is really bad because of teaching/brainwashing/institutionalizing the bad culture of reporting your problems to some sort of authorities and automatically have those authorities get vengeance for you...whether it's your neighbors calling the cops to accuse you of being a suspicious person or of being too loud with your music - they just using the authorities to get back at you which is the same bad culture the Communist in China taught even going as far as to teach people to report their own parents and that the government should be more important that your parents...
The government/authorities want to be your parents.
Anyways, on forums because we just posting words at each other, there is not the same possibility of physical danger or possibility or any real danger of any kind...so instead of wanting to ban/penalize/report things which would just turn free forums like this into nazi police state forums like SBR where their elite group of pet posters get to talk shit to others but others get banned/penalized/reported for doing the same - in other words a pompous country club of protected pet posters that get to sneer down their snotty noses at all the other posters they reported and got banned, all the while too scared to leave their little protected country club to post in the real world with their helicopter moderators to protect them.
Internet forums are just like the real world in that if get kicked out of a restaurant or don't like the atmosphere at a certain restaurant you can simply take your business elsewhere - no need to report anyone or call the cops or make mountains or of molehills.
I think post history is the most important thing to preserve at internet forums because it is a free and open accessible historical record available to anyone that wants to review the truth of what was posted - that's important to keep impeccably unaltered just for historical accuracy of not for anything else.
Anyways, I'll always vote for less moderator and encouraging people to learn how to use the ignore button rather than the rat/report button - because I'd rather endure being called names etc rather than turn this forum into an elitist club where I and others could get banned from one day, I like places to stay as free as possible.
Out of all the forums I like TheRx best just because there is less policing and deleting/editing posts/threads and banning etc which makes for more free speech and freedoms here, as well the new computerized record tracking is pretty cool, and looks like there gonna be lots of free contests etc - plus the staff here are really looking like they care about doing the right thing by paying Defying back for BAS, and the RxGirls(admin) have been really nice to everyone including me as far as I have seen?
