Originally Posted by tore

I'm not calling for moderators to act like robots. I think that's an exaggeration and one of several strawmen being thrown around. Are cops in the real world robots just because they don't sit back and do nothing? No. Like I'm suggesting, they do have precedent for how to deal with a situation, but they still use judgment. I'm not saying erase judgment altogether, but don't use judgment to do nothing.

As I wrote earlier, musicbanter is like a playground of really noisy kids and the moderators are the parents. If the noisy kids are a bother to you, you get irritated with parents who do nothing. Don't they know the kids will only get worse and louder? When a kid does something outrageously awful, there might be repercussions and then the kid throws a complete tantrum due to the indignation that a parent should try to control them. Usually, everyone else has to watch this and suffer it.

I mentioned musicbanter is like a natural environment. Like snow might select for white rabbits, musicbanter selects for - using the same analogy - loud kids and people who can stand them. Others leave or don't even bother coming. This has been going on for years. Consistent rule enforcement is the only way of tackling this. The rules have to be bigger and more important than any one mod or any one member.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.