I am not sure that the moderation is aggressive* enough to shape the growth that the site is experiencing. I feel like the smartest most insightful people in th

I am not sure that the moderation is aggressive* enough to shape the growth that the site is experiencing. I feel like the smartest most insightful people in the community should be being more decisive in their flagging/moderation/conversation. You can non-aggressively tell somebody to not be rude and I don't see that happening... Perhaps something should be done to alter the direction that the content is moving, too. I personally agree with tptacek that gossipy advocacy/techpolitic issues are now far too important to the site. I enjoyed them a little, too, but I feel like the community is now addicted to them. Honestly I don't want to see anymore gossip pieces from torrentfreak... * For example, (1) give people limits on how often they can post while their average karma is low, (2) allow people to flag for more reasons (hivemind posts, aggressive posts, bigotry, rudeness), (3) give people a couple of weeks/months to time-out from the site if they get flagged and there turns out to be a problem with their behaviour. I think there is a danger on a site like this of people over-complicating the problem when there are simple things you can try. :)