I don’t know if the brothers are reading this thread. Here are my thoughts.
The primary problem with moderation on this board is that the moderators remove too many posts that are harmless, while leaving posts that really are harmful.
Any criticism of moderators is deleted within minutes if not seconds. But all of us here have seen threads about extremely inappropriate topics, sometimes explicitly sexual, remain up for hours. All of us have seen threads deleted for no good reason, that include dozens or hundreds of responses with worthwhile discussion. I once created a thread that was deleted that had about eight pages of discussion. I’d spent a hours putting the thread together and responding to the various comments. Some moderator decided they just didn’t like it, and it was gone. How many people have been suspended only for arguing with moderators? Quite a few, I would imagine. It’s hard to take this place seriously.
Admit that moderating isn’t really an “art” and that you’re not “fixing it.” Instead, simply restrict the moderators to deleting the following:
pornographic posts
Threatening posts
doxing posts
posts critical of underage runners
That’s it. They don’t get to delete posts that are critical of moderation. They don’t get to delete post because they don’t like the politics. They don’t get to delete posts because they don’t like what you said about a runner. They don’t get to delete a post because they think your point is wrong. Yeah, people are going to see things they disagree with. That’s life.