Well, tune session or singing session...moderator or leader, I have no doubt that if there were a real problem you WOULD have to find a way to deal with disruptions. Here, there are many thousands who come in at times, and the law of averages says that there is more opportunity for disruption than at a music session where you can look the offender in the eye!



"I don't know how difficult it may be to obtain 'moderators' for our forum who are seen to be impartial ..."

I can well imagine how difficult it would be. PAID mods would be unlikely to understand the issues here, and if they did, they would be unlikely to tolerate your brand of incessant complaining.

"...but that does not make the need for this to be any less desirable."

for whom? for youm? YOU are harping on some impossible model of complete impartiality.

You, it seems, will never get the point that YOU are not the arbitor of whether moderators are needed and how the job is delegated, and to whom.

The only way to keep things flowing on a site like this is to have some way to police ourselves....Max decided how and who, and he 'seems' to be ok with how they are doing it. The amazing part is how how much he and his appointees tolerate criticism OF his system and its rules.

That 'could' change.