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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 2370255" data-attributes="member: 115">One thing that I'm not sure a lot of people realize is that when a thread is closed, if someone asks nicely, the moderators are usually more than willing to discuss the specifics of why it was closed.  Case in point, this thread.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   Because of that, there's a misconception that the mods are trigger-happy, and I don't particularly feel that's a fair assessment.  I know the mods have a Super-Secret Mod Forum (tm) in which they do discuss things.  While they aren't willing to make everyone privy to the conversations (and naughty pictures) that go on there, I get the feeling that they often discuss moderation, and usually don't mind saying why a decision was made to moderate in a particular way.  This holds especially true if you PM/e-mail one of them in a calm and rational matter.  After all, one of the biggest reasons that ENWorld's moderation works is because it's not an intangible thing; there are reasons for decisions that are only private knowledge until somebody asks.  From that people can get a feel for what is over the line and what isn't, and that allows self-moderation to work for the most part. Also, because PCat is sexy.  Er... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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