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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eridanis" data-source="post: 4617050" data-attributes="member: 275">Moving thread to Meta.Since Rel has commented, I'll chime in, as well.Exactly so.Correct, as well. That's how we've handled things for years, and we continue to do so when we can. In many cases, though, a post is so egregious that we need to take steps to edit it before it causes a larger flamewar. In a perfect world, we'd be able to wait for someone to email us back when we ask a question about what they mean, and so forth. But the fact is, we have a lot of posts, and a lot of posters, and moderating is what we do when we're (ahem) doing our real jobs. We can't spend all day by the phone, so to speak. <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=":)" />In practice, it's quite rare for an entire thread to be locked. We prefer to have free discussion, and usually banning a problem poster will allow a discussion to get back on track. Sometimes we have to, of course, but it tends to be a last resort used if multiple people ignore warnings to back off. We don't care if a thread's pro- or anti- anything. We want people to have civil discourse.I've been a moderator for nearly six years, and not once in all that time has Morrus asked us moderators, either in the mod forum or by email, to weigh financial considerations or edition preference when we moderate. (Frankly, if he ever said such  thing, we'd be on the first plane to the UK to see where the pod people had taken the real Russ to.*) We're here to make sure ENworld is a fun and useful place for people to talk about their favorite game. That's our goal, and none of us have an axe to grind one way or another. Also, the full extent of my "pay" was a few pdfs a few years back. We don't do this for pay. We do it because we want to. And for the pun wars in the mod forum. <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=":)" />As for bias? I'm not a rabid fan of 4E, but I'm not anti-4E. I look forward to trying it myself one of these days, when I find enough people willing to play it. A game is a game is an excuse for friends to get together. Whatever facilitates that is cool by me - and by all my fellow mods and admins, I feel safe to say.* Hmm.. sounds like a good Gameday one-shot. Hmm...</blockquote>

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