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

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@Gary_Robson

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.

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