What in the hell is going on here?

[MADem]

22. Thing is, there are no "mods." There are three hardworking "admins" but now the site is

self-regulating--i.e. anyone who signs up--even a troll or a sock--has an equal opportunity to serve as judge/jury/executioner on a post after they accumulate enough posts to serve on jury duty (an easy thing to do-- they can "+1" and "I agree" their way to that status while flying completely under the radar). I think the admins ought to institute a post count AND time-limit (like, say, six months) investment in the site in order to participate in jury duty. The way things are now, people who have been here a week and don't know the culture are weighing in.

The forum HOSTS can shut down a topic for being "off topic" but they can't touch any post past the first post. A thread can veer off into meta and they can't touch it (legally, anyway--that doesn't stop the odd martinet from going to town). In groups, the hosts can just do what they want, but they can't wipe out an individual post, they have to crush the whole thread.