Okay, a passive moderator, who gets active when someone has a complaint. A moderator who stimulates social behavior and suppresses anti-social behavior. Why not?!

I have also proposed to make the originator of a thread the primary moderator of that thread. What you'd see is that people are reluctant to jump in a thread that's started by a bad moderator and are happy to jump in threads that are started by good moderators.

>An active moderator who would force people to converse with designated other people? My guess is there would quickly be very few left to moderate.
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>>Twit filters may be okay in certain cases, but not in THIS forum. That's what I'm trying to make clear. This forum is for professional developers. Hypothetically, if I'd notice that one of my employees refuses to interact at all with another employee, I'd fire him. What this forum needs is an active moderator.
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>>>You might want to read this:
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>>>http://www.of-counsel.com/of-counsel/News/Etiquet/Etiquet.htm
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>>>...marks the sender as a "twit," who other users can filter out with the "twit filter" in their software.
>>>
>>>or look up twit filter here:
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>>>http://www.ibiblio.org/j126/Internet/MainPage.swf
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>>>(that goes back to 1996)
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>>>or see 'ignore list' here:
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>>>http://objectmix.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_board_usage#faq_vb3_troublesome_users
>>>
>>>
>>>or here search for 'twit filter' on the page:
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>>>http://www.professional.org/newuser.html