Too much moderation on these boards?

During the short time I've been lurking and sometimes nosing in on conversations, I've noticed that I can't really read more than a page without seeing some kind of moderation going on. The topic proposal process was mind blowing to me when I first saw that, but I guess it was justified. Then I noticed that there were members who were limited to certain forums. Then one day I noticed the retired forums and saw that there were in the past forums specifically designed to box in certain members. What I noticed next were more moderations every other page. In the propose new topics itself, I started noticing admins debating before the topic was even promoted, sometimes up to two pages (I call this the pre-debate debate). Then, I noticed some more moderations.Now, we have a showcase forum where those of us who actually see a topic that we're interested in that hasn't already been beaten up badly by other people have to go through long strenuous process to get special permission to participate.The words that naturally come to my mouth are "HOLY MOLY!" This forum is the closest thing to a moderation nazi forum.Is there such a thing as too much moderation?

iano writes

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An unmodded EvC? No thanks

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Pardon me for my frustration, but the next time someone makes a claim that just because one extreme is bad then the other extreme must be good then I will blow my f*cking head off.It's like saying, "honey, don't you think you've had enough food today?" and then get the response, "but if I don't ever eat at all I will starve to death."

SuperNintendo Chalmers writes

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Sorry robin, you just brought back a bad memory for me of 11th grade english.

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Look at the bright side. When I was in high school, we had to read that book in 9th grade.Now that I am much older and have read many thousands of books (I have a habit of starting a book and finish it the same day... just can't put it down) I still think it was one of the crappiest books ever written. The worst book I can think of is Demons by Dosteovski (sp?).

AdminModulous writes

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This is all very interesting, don't get me wrong, but I'm forced to engage irony mode and moderate this thread.

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For once, just let people go at it. People are talking off topic, but these off-topics are derived from the original topic. I'd rather see them spend a page or two at it than starting another thread.