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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3483568" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes.  However, peer pressure is one of the most power forces known to man.  <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=":)" />Well, let's face facts - there are only so many mods, and we aren't on call 24-7.  Even if we were, we are *horribly* outnumbered.  If enough people wanted to be bad, we could not keep up with them.  Moderators are by their very nature reactive.  The badness has already happened by the time we can act on it.  The best, and only proactive measure, available exists within the skulls of the individual posters.With responsibility comes blame when things go wrong.  So, you're effectively asking us to take blame for things we cannot prevent.  Consider how much flack we'd have taken for "falling down on the job" this weekend - do you really think your mods are going to stay nice, happy people under such circumstances?Allowing an individual poster to abrogate his own responsibility (because ultimately the mods are responsible to control them) is a very, very bad precedent.</blockquote>