[Jeff Alton]

Matt, while I agree with you on most of that, and we are friends. A moderators job is to moderate. No where did I see a post from a moderator telling those in question to settle down. Also, and I suspect I am 100% correct here, the moderator did not reach out to the parties involved in the bun fight to get them to focus on content and forget the personalities.

That is the definition of "moderator". Moderate the discussion. Don't be afraid to step in and control the tone, in fact, that is the role of the moderator. Moderate the tone of a thread.

In any dispute, when moderation does not work, then we are forced to deal with judgement. In this case, it went straight to judgement.

Lets be honest here. The only reason a thread gets closed is because someone gut but hurt, made a complaint. I am sure in many cases that complaint was justified, and that may be the case here. But, if you are a "moderator" your job is to moderate. Closing a thread is a last resort, not a first course of action.


The only reason I started this thread was because I had typed a rather lengthy post to describe our experiences building countless aircooled engines. Sharing our experience with the group so we call can have another data point. Then when I hit the "post reply" button, I was alerted that the thread was closed.

Not even close to good "moderation" at all.

I'll keep our years of experience to ourselves now. I will continue to read what others post in an attempt to continually learn. We will always be available through email and PM to help where we can.

Cheers