See post 179. Where the RM oversteps his/her boundaries into General Chat threads and re-explain.
It IS a problem.
JimRob has generic rules over the whole of FR
about personal attacks.
The rules are not enforced uniformly because mods are not all cloned robots.
Praise God, occassionally, someone bothers with Chat at all and reigns it in a bit. Otherwise, the brawl can get quite out of control.
Though some of us love the free exchange of an intense group process kind of group in intense give and take with few holds barred . . . many do not.
And the Boss and founder of the site has set his own boundaries as he well has a right to do. Yeah, things are lop-sided in lots of places.
Some mods are obviously more hostile toward those not of their bent than others . . . on the whole, it works.
Being a mod has to be one of the most thankless volunteer jobs there is.
And the Rel Forum was, for years, such a disaster that JimRob was occasionally tempted to try and find a way to eleminate it entirely while still hating that religion was removed from public life by liberals . . . he persistently came down on the side of protecting it as a vital part of FR—and, I think, rightfully so.
He seems to finally have found a balanced, wise, bright bloke of an RM who can stand his ground and enforce his rules with more or less admirable fairness and logic. I applaud that and cheer him on. Praise God for the progress. This RM is a Godsend. Praise God for him. Some of the others have been fiercely biased and unfair disasters.