Sloewyne explains the moderators

Raymax wanted to know why the mods were cracking down all of a sudden and padlocking messages.

Sloewyne explained the moderators:

The problem is that moderators are only members - just like you and me - who have either volunteered or been asked to be a mod...they receive VERY little money for it (which is why you usually only see them at night or on the weekends...they have day jobs like everybody else).

I see now that some of them will shut down a thread because they're being criticized...which defeats the entire purpose of being a moderator!

There's definitely some foolishness going on with at least two of the mods on here...and I'm going to do what Kemestry said he was going to do: take it up the chain a little further.

I can see the threads that were being shut down because of legitimate TOS violations...but that right there was just ridiculous!

What I think is ridiculous is threads like "raccoons and trolls" are deleted with the quickness, but anti BM /BW threads are left up for posterity.

Why do you think the mods are cracking down all of a sudden?