wolf359 posted at 6:20PM Sat, 24 August 2019 - #4360298

should be free to participate how they enjoy, within >the boundaries of the TOS of course, without being >chided or scorned by >hose that think they have a >right to mother a thread or a forum because they >know best.

@ Razor42 .Quoted for complete agreement,

This "get off of our property non-believer!!", mentality of the Smith micro forums, carries zero weight here ,a this is not the fever swamp, echo chamber that was the smith micro poser forum. ( good riddance!!)

As long as the TOS is not been deemed to have been violated , only an ACTUAL FORUM MODERATOR has the agency to issue commands to other forum members.

Self appointed "den mothers" need not apply and their "directives" will be blythely ignored by, me at least.

I only consider myself a "den mother" on threads that I start. And as I don't willingly violate TOS, I don't think I've ever heard from a moderator on the subject. That said, and with all due respect to the mods, this forum does seem to be a little lax on the mods enforcing peace and order. I never wanted to be a mod here, probably would have been fired by now anyway for being too harsh. All that said, threads don't have to be derailed. If you have questions or comments and you're afraid you might derail a thread, take it to site mail and continue the conversation there.

Also, there are several people here, who, frankly, I rarely ever read their posts as they often seem to be writing a thesis or a book. I pity the poor mod who does read all those to make sure a TOS is not violated.