Too much moderation on these boards?

I dunno, rgb. There are days when I say the same, and others when I feel that - due to the nature of the controversy - the moderation has an acceptable level. A lot of us whined about the closure of the "Free For All" forum, but it never got reinstated (talk about the Wild Wild West). On the other hand, a lot of us whined about the existence of the "Boot Camp" forum as well, and it got closed. I haven't gotten around to whining about the "Showcase" forum yet, but my opinion is "WTF?" I can't imagine a more, hmmm, problematic approach.As to in-thread moderation, I've seen way over-modded topics, and topics that could have used more moderation. Most of the moderation is pretty even-handed (there have been exceptions). It's a desperate attempt to try and keep things civil and on-topic. The PNT system and the increasing moderation is a reaction to the "bad old days" where the on-topic life-expectency of a thread was about a page and a half. Yeah, it can be a distraction to see all those red OFF TOPIC flags all over the place, but the mods have been pretty good about quickly promoting PNT's that weren't simply call-outs and derive from an interesting sub-thread.Like I said, there are days when it's good, and days when it's really overbearing. Maybe because we're all human?