Nomasks, I have to admit that I struggled to understand not what you were saying, this was clear, but how it fits in the puzzle.

I would say that reviews are always an important component of a forum like this, but there are other important components too.

Even for reviews, what goes there is a subject for debate. Do all reviews have to be positive? Various people have different interests. It is pretty clear and expected that the activities we are interested in are different, not to mention that for instance I am less interested in a blow by blow description of a session than of what is in the eyes or mind of the mistress.

Trolls infested it to the point that even I asked for it to be removed. That was a shame because it was cool for a while. But, at some point it was too much of a distraction for a FemDom forum.

I almost hate posting this because it sounds like a major suck-up but I think you and the other mods do a great job of allowing things to play out with a light hand until they spin out of control (and even then you seem to give a lot of rope).

Moderation is generally a thankless job but I for one wish to thank you.

Asp

First I agree with Aspx that moderation is a thankless job, and that you are doing it well. The curse or blessing of a good referee is that the better he is the less visible he is. When a referee becomes the focus of attention (like let's say the ex president) it means he fails at the job.

So you can be assured that my reservations and doubts have nothing to do with you. I can give examples of abuses and errors of moderation done here, and I expect you would agree with me, at least for those specific cases.

I do not think that it is necessary, because the conflict between the concepts of forums and moderation is natural and unavoidable.

What makes a forum best is free speech and opening to the widest possible range of subjects and points of view.

Moderation is a big plus for highly technical forums where the moderator is an expert who can decide what the valid knowledge is as opposed to incorrect opinions.

Normally any forum should have rules of conduct which are usually the first thing you read before joining. When the rules of conduct are sensible and represent the shared values of the members you do not need moderators just to enforce them, because any member or any other member who will notice infractions will complain and enforce the shared values. You need an admin like yourself to implement the rules, and this is a job you do very well.

However the way this site started was different. You had subject admins having administrative powers for instance in the lobby, and I did have the case of an abusive one threatening me "Can't you see that my name is in green?"

This was corrected, and my reservations nowadays are more in principle. If you are libertarian, which I am, choosing a free market over a planned economy which btw becomes more and more fashionable, is consistent with seeing a system with a minimum number of rules as being superior.

What about the argument that the Buzz is dedicated to Female Domination and that we are speaking of real life professions that can be affected?

I am sympathetic to it, I hope you do not see my reticence as asking for license to attack and destroy. The conceptual problem with it is even if you buy the argument, what can you hope to achieve?

If somebody wants to attack a mistress there are lots of different places where he or she can do that. If you want to be able to defend her the more influence you have the better the chance to do it.

So to some extent you have a choice, do you want to be a sanctuary or do you want to be a popular site?

Your patience and tact in dealing with that section were amazing. There were a few guys completely overboard. I am not sure to what extent this was because of the subject matter or this is a sign of the times in that we are losing the tolerance to accept opposite point of views, especially in politics.

SERIOUSLY?!? You think we are losing tolerance for others opinions? That has to be the stupidest thing that I've read on this board in at least the last 3 months. We are incredibly tolerant of you, and people like you's, dumbass opinions... it is destroying not just the planet but the very fabric of the known universe (cosmic string warming is a scientific fact!!!).

If you are gonna spew this kind of crazy, go do it on MF or even better yet... get the hell out of my country you traitorous, commie, free-market, Muslim, libertarian, multi-lingual, snowflake, Keynesian, drug pushing, Papist, Al-Jazeera watching, dick trickle-down onto the carpet bastard.

However, please don't take the above as disagreeing with your perfectly valid and cogent points... I want to make clear that this is a vicious personal attack based on my unthinking visceral reaction to your general views and not a condemnation of the specific content of this post... Thank you for listening.

I love to hear a real patriot talking, but Keynesian? That hurts!

Hey... If the economic levers of government spending fits *shrug*