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I know what you mean. I'm one of several moderators on a small forum that was given up by its founder. We moderators, who handle it as a group now, tried hard not to let people know who we were because we didn't want there to be an "approved" point of view (people tended to be quiet when they didn't agree with the founder). We wanted to have an environment conducive to the free-flow of ideas and information. Even so, we find ourselves to have some of the same problems you mentioned.

Exactly! Like I said, I tried too.

I remember topics like abortion, homosexuality, etc., where I really had my own opinion, and would have loved to enter into the debate. Doing so would have been alright, but would have silenced others. I tried not to. But when a topic dear to my heart would erupt, I would fail to follow my own rules. The group closest to me would always back me up and other opinions could not survive in the debate. Hence, the discussion would end...to no conclusion.

I want to make clear that I am not finding fault with the moderators, I'm really not. This problem in not unique to FR, but it is an administration problem that always needs to be watched for. There are other disrupters here on FR, but there's not much you can do about that...

so many disrupters, so little time.