Surely you jest? Spunkets makes bigoted statements accusing everybody involved in ID of wanting to torutre and murder and curiosity calls him on it and you tell curiosity to "cease and desist"?
Perhaps it's something like my experience with my nephews. Back when they were much younger, my wife and I were "babysitting" our two nephews while their mother was away for the day. At one point they began squabbling, as brothers will do, and one came running to us to try to get us to settle their dispute. My wife just told them both to knock it off and find a way to get along, "or else". One of the nephews began to complain that this wasn't fair, and began to tell his side of the story, so I told him one of the facts of life: "Boys, when it comes to childhood squabbles, the feeling of most adults is that we really don't care who might be right or wrong on a trivial matter that will be forgotten tomorrow anyway, we just want to the noise to stop."
I get the impression that the moderator had a similar attitude tonight. As long as blood's not being spilled, he expects people to work it out between themselves, or else he'll send *everyone* to their rooms to restore the peace.
If that's the case, I can't say that I blame them. The moderators probably have their hands full all the time just handling articles posted from "do not post" sources, gross obscenities, disruptors, trolls, racism, spam, mentions of illegal activity or threats of violence, and other such "critical response" items. I doubt they have much time or energy left to play referee on run-of-the-mill online disagreements, or because someone is offended by someone else, even when the offense is justified.