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Originally Posted by carlwaring
So you do believe that forum moderators should not be allowed to post their own opinions and therefore be entirely silent and invisible except for when "doing their duty"?
Well I have to say that I don't in any way agree with you and that is the first time I have ever read of such an opinion in my ten years or so of posting to forums.
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I would be inclined to agree but I have, on the odd occasion, seen discussions about the role of a moderator. Problem is that most moderators tend to be users who are interested in the forum topic and quite often have opinions on a lot of the subjects discussed in the forums they moderate.
Quite often these opinions are well informed and useful, sometimes they are emotive but I would rather have a moderator who was interested than some faceless "employee" who was not involved in the community and was just reading from a crib sheet when deciding how to moderate.
I would argue that short of preventing moderators from posting, due to human nature, it is impossible to have an
interested moderator who doesn't feel the need to air their thoughts once in a while.