Legion said...Mark _australia said...
... seabreeze is under moderated ...
Seabreeze is way overmoderated (or at least the threat of it exists more pervasively than on other fora).
All the best/biggest/most influential fora have one thing in common - very, very little moderation, if any.
It might be before your time, but news groups have been around for a while, and the unmoderated ones would start out okay until some crazies would move in and own the group and discourage any sort of useful discussion. Eventually anyone interesting ends up not contributing and it becomes an entire group of crazies.
I suspect that a lot of the forums that you think are unmoderated are really moderated, but so well that you don't notice.