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People can help us out in finding them by refusing to take part in the flame wars and being understanding when a person gets sent to the cooler, so that eventually the real problem children are rooted out.

That part about being understanding can be made a lot easier if the mods would be more forthcoming as to why a particular corrective action was taken against a poster, rather than just deleting his comments and banning him out of the blue. That really is much more of a problem, IMHO, than flamers. Flamers for me have been mostly little more than a minor annoyance, but overactive moderators, or perceived overactive moderators, can really cast a pall over a thread at times.

Do you suppose, and I ask because I don't know, that IF the reason for a suspension were given to all, FR could be opened up to a lawsuit from the person suspended? For 'humiliation' etc? Perhaps it is a 'liability' issue that keeps the 'reasons' private, between the poster and FR?

"That part about being understanding can be made a lot easier if the mods would be more forthcoming as to why a particular corrective action was taken against a poster, rather than just deleting his comments and banning him out of the blue. That really is much more of a problem, IMHO, than flamers. Flamers for me have been mostly little more than a minor annoyance, but overactive moderators, or perceived overactive moderators, can really cast a pall over a thread at times"

As the software improves, you will see more and more reasons why an action was done. For example, the new reasons why a thread was pulled is great. But, when a disruptor is nuked, everything they posted is gone. Where we need everyone's help is if a thread is deleted, and there isn't a reason for the deletion, just hit abuse, copy the link and ask. We don't read every post, or every thread, it's impossible. If the thread wasn't a disruption thread, we can restore it. The key is, most of the time, we don't know everything that was lost unless you let us know.