GSS...I think that there has to be SOME sort of moderation if the forum is to keep functioning as it was intended to, but really, the mods have a thankless task policing every thread.

In saying that, I don't think that some of them are 100% neutral.
I'm sure I would have been switched off long ago if it wasn't for Joe and maybe Max, with whom I have never had a conversation.

I suppose this is a centre liberal forum with a few socialists and a handful of conservatives, so one can't expect too much in the way of controversy.
Better to just keep discussing and hope the abusers start to realise they have been "rumbled"