Like you, Smokie, I use a 'light touch' when moderating the HJ forum. I've done it for 10 years now and it seems to work OK. There will sometimes be heated debate, but I step in if the language starts to get personal. This tends to happen when some is so sure that their viewpoint is the only tenable one that anyone daring to disagree mist be mentally defective.
I give a warning to keep the debate civilised, and if that doesn't happen I close the thread. So far we've never had the problem of a new one being sared again on the same topic.
I think the Government is trying to protect people from such things as harassment, violence and child abuse. The risk is that governments or their agencies tend to take a blunderbuss approach, and attack the wrong targets: but I'm hopeful that Ofcom or whoever won't be too interested in someone calling someone else an idiot on a motoring forum.
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