Agreed that unmoderated forums become cesspools rather quickly and that drives away the good people that you want to keep.

That said, over-moderated forums become a rather poor quality vanilla and stay that way which drives away good folks too.

This particular issue (kilts) is just so political/nationalist/religious that over or under moderation kinda spoils the soup so to speak.

Panache, love you man! 'Didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Just asking for a moderate amount of moderation, at least enough to find out why the Southern Irish wear the kilt. The Northern Irish who are very often displaced Scots, I can imagine why they wear the kilt.