# How is answering this question by another poster off-topic?

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-answering-this-question-by-another-poster-off-topic/983853/21 "2023-05-22T12:06:14Z")

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> [@Gary\_Robson](#):
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> I don’t know, **Broomstick**. When I went through my moderator training back in the dark ages (you remember — you were there), one of the toughest things was getting used to the differences between forums. In the beginning, I moderated the Game Room, which was about as loose as things got, and GQ, which was pretty tight.
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> I’ve only been back a short while, but the moderation doesn’t look that different to me. Each moderator still has a distinct personality, but I don’t see a massive discontinuity from the old days.

I wasn’t here in the olden days, but there are definitely differences in moderation by forum, and by mod.

I tolerate quite a lot of meandering thread drift in collegial MPSIMS threads. (That aren’t breaking news.) The p&e mods like to run a tight ship. Their threads are at more risk of being overrun by the same old fight, so this makes some sense

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