Great post SMC.
I would like to come to the defense of the mods though. They are very busy. You can see all the things they get up to by reading Jim's daily journal, which you can find on the bring4th homepage. The mods have a hard job, and I think they far more often than not, handle things very well. They have the almost impossible job of finding that sweet spot between letting people express themselves and censoring or cautioning against certain types of expression. I don't think this thread got so out of hand that it required serious mod intervention.
I would like to come to the defense of the mods though. They are very busy. You can see all the things they get up to by reading Jim's daily journal, which you can find on the bring4th homepage. The mods have a hard job, and I think they far more often than not, handle things very well. They have the almost impossible job of finding that sweet spot between letting people express themselves and censoring or cautioning against certain types of expression. I don't think this thread got so out of hand that it required serious mod intervention.