[Christ]

There's a "report post" feature for a reason. I suggest those of you who have a problem with the current state of moderation on this forum embrace it's proper use.

Don't swap Darren and the other mods with a bunch of reported posts because you can't handle a slight of jocularity, though... Enjoy yourself here.

Most threads are, at least partly, moderated by the person who started the thread. If I post about using hamsters in a wheel for propulsion, and ask what to feed them for maximum efficiency, and you don't like the thread, /don't answer it/.

If, in that thread, I start getting posts pertaining to how to grow greener grass, and the original question and subsequent line of discussion hasn't been attended, I will make every viable attempt to bring the thread back on topic and into some semblance, and any OP is welcome to do the same, using due diplomacy.

Side conversation is usually welcome, so long as it doesn't detract from the thread (and even then sometimes). When things start to degrade into pissing matches and people spend their keystrokes without adding anything useful, but instead to argue or attack others, and don't respect the OP's requests to back off and take it elsewhere (cuz that's what PM is for, usually), THAT'S when moderation is required.