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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (17462)	5/22/2003 11:35:46 AM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32883

Bingo! Good post...Could not agree more.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (17462)	5/22/2003 11:40:14 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32883

Moderated boards have provided welcome relief from a small fringe of posters who persist in obsessive personal attacks on various individuals. It has been these vicious personal attacks, not moderated boards, that have been a black eye for SI.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (17462)	5/22/2003 11:41:38 AM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 32883

I think that the decision to moderate or not moderate any thread, stock or otherwise, should be at the full discretion of the thread originator, not Bob nor anyone else. This is a must for an acceptable level of civility to prevail .. this can be seen by looking at almost any Yahoo stock message board.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (17462)	5/22/2003 12:04:45 PM
From: Alan Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32883

Moderated threads play a critical role. There are times that opposing views simply cannot be discussed civilly on one thread. People who are excluded are always able to create a new thread and sometimes that thread ends up dominating the original. The one improvement I think would help would be to have full disclosure - i.e. have the ability for the thread participants to see who has been excluded by the moderator. It would allow the active participants to influence the moderator to reconsider his/her decision. It would also allow participants to know who does not have the ability to defend their views on the thread.