It's funny...no sooner do I finish my lengthy reply to Oz on freedom and censorship and I find this. (there's a terrible echo in here.)

When you realize that this is a largely unregulated forum, I think, with rare exception, we do a remarkable job of keeping things under control. I'm a participant at several other forums which ARE moderated, and I don't see any more problems here than there. Being the huge forum it is, AVS probably has more problems.

you guys gotta admit,those posts are entertaining and they seem to get a lot of hits very fast.it gives you someone to do a little venting on once and a while

Ok guys thats it, I've had enough, the Axiom police are taking over again, whenever a person tries to voice an opinion they get burned at the stakes. I'm going to report all of you to Amie so she can clean house.

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OK, you all know I'm just kidding. I actually share the same opinions and I definately would not want the environment to change. I just figured one of US guys would make sure it did stay the same and continue the same morale that is the norm.

Hey, if I didn't like it around here I would have DRIFTed away some time ago. Just trying to come up with ideas to police the trolls

Bring on the trolls, "Lets Get Ready to Rumbleeeeee"

I think we can handle a few trolls. There's always Coventry...

This has been a pretty well behaved forum in my opinion, I don't see a need for Moderators here. As a matter of fact this is probably the most well behave non moderated forum I have seen.

We appreciate you opening up discussion on this topic, Randy. Always good to check the pulse of the whole community! I think we're up to four deleted threads now in five years. And boy, there were a few we definitely wished would self-destruct! But in general, it seems that all of us (including you) are happy for now with status quo.