Hi, I'm from mywayorthehighway.com. I think this idea sucks and this thread should be deleted. Thank you

Glad to hear you are not dead set on the idea.

If you start removing peoples comments and they start a new thread then it will all get in a mess. Better to keep it all in one place and unmodified IMO.

I checked with your superior at mywayorthehighway.com and she said we should conduct a poll. And that you need to pick up a gallon of milk on your way home.

People who start threads CAN moderate them, I found with my PR1.2 thread, started in response to a moderator who wanted to add Chuck Norris to the original PR1.2 thread (my interpretation, sorry.)

I was afraid that I was going to be invaded by Chuck Norris posters inspired by the frivolity enhanced by the moderator thread, and indeed, eventually some DID come.

I simply attacked them a bit bitterly and they stopped posting. I said in no uncertain terms that the thread was trying to be for serious discussion of PR1.2.

To my partial surprise, it worked!

If you see Texrat's comments in threads, you will notice that when he isn't making threats (which I couldn't do, having no power to threaten), he simply asks people to cool it, and they do!

You can do that with your threads. I think that what this site has occasionally lacked is more self-moderation. If people want threads to stay on topic, in general they don't need no stinking moderators (no offense, just trying to use the movie cliche -- see Treasure of the Sierra Madre).

1. There's no reason the OP should get special status just because he starts a thread.

2. If the moderation concern is due to extreme OOT or trolling, it's already covered by the ToS and you just need to report to forum mod for assistance.

3. Talking and asking people nicely works wonder

The worst thing that can happen with freely delegated moderation like this is that people use it to moderate the content to fit their bias in the debate/discussion.

AND there will be a flood of threads debating unfair moderation by other people. In other words, chaos.

I don't make threats, just promises.

I think a person asking a question has a certain inherent status. That person should be the worlds #1 expert on what they meant by the question and whether they understand the answers given. Responders owe the questioner some attention. I have seen threads in which no one appears to be even trying to answer the actual question.