Dear Forrest,

I second your excellent suggestions.
If it could be done it would alleviate
many of the problems that Graham has
to currently face.

There would be no need for a Moderation panel.

Dear Houellebecq,
apologies for being off topic, and for dragging Poirot off topic.
Can only rejoice, however, that I don't fit your definition of "right thinking poster". Can you post an example of the proper form please?

I third Gump's excellent suggestion. More words and more substance called for in general.

I object to Gumps proposal... please add 341 words.

Some of the best and most telling humour is brief.

Which has me wondering where CJ Morgan is - one of the casualties of the great deletion?

And I still would like to know if Susan Prior still works for OLO. An OLO moderation panel is incomplete without her.

Hey Squeers,

I felt like Houellebecq caught us smoking behind the school shed...

I vote Houellie for moderator as he appears to have an extremely well developed sense of outrage regarding grandiose delusions.

Its great that people devote time and energy to such a site. Without moderation the place would be full of rubbish and personal insults. Perhaps there might be a way of temporarily promoting a regular decent poster to moderator for the week to give the regular moderators a break every so often. My opinion, is that if something is bad enough to be removed then an automatic 24hr ban should ensue (maybe an explanatory email stating why also). Personally, I'm sure I have made a few radical or marginally unacceptable posts and got away with it. Attack the idea not the person is usually a good rule of thumb, except for theological matters where the idea is usually the "person".