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	Texrat	2010-06-02 , 04:20
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Originally Posted by phobosk

Anyway IMHO Moderation is not the things one can do to punish the posters he doesn't like or considers rude/inapropriate/out of good manners etc, but the things one can do to convince the offenders stop doing their flame/troll etc.

That should certainly be the goal, but if the offender is a sociopath, and many are, a moderator will never succeed in that. In fact it will likely backfire.

Moderators should enter as idealists and act as realists.

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Last edited by Texrat; 2010-06-02 at 13:44.