DamonHD - 10:15 pm on May 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

...but big problems arise when mods take sides, from personal or commercial motivation.

For example, the 'speaker' or equivalent in a legislature is meant to be disinterested like a judge, to make sure that the right thing happens without them using their super powers to nobble the side that they don't 'like'.

Mods are given extra powers, and should work strenuously to avoid having to use them at all. Whenever I have management responsibilities I work very hard to pursade people to do the right thing BEFORE I have to force them to do it, for all sorts of reasons... Having to 'force' something is a failure. And I certainly would not make partisan use of my authority to skew an argument in an underhand way; honesty and transparency is a much better policy.

Rgds

Damon