I eagerly await you putting that skill to use.
Nobody here brought up the word “awesome” except you, so you can keep that strawman. While you’re guessing without evidence as to how many threads are closed by moderators on different boards, how many do you think we kill on an average day(not counting obvious spam threads, of course)?
I already noted that I believe it to be an awful lot less than 50.
Just like the Tea Party then; although I daresay that semi-advanced age does not necessarily preclude incoherence.
However in board management all sales are final: whether or not a mod has made a decision people dislike is beside any point other than the fact he has the right to make that decision. Nor are mods babysitters, expected to nurture the misdirected talent of their charges into creating more fruitful threads like publishers’ editors.
I was “attracted” to the board by Cecil and his columns. I didn’t know anything about the style of the moderation of the board before I got here, and I don’t really see how I could have.
You are correct, of course. I meant to ask what keeps people such as you here.
Perhaps the OP should post the idea as a game in the Game Room. I believe they did a “greatest person” or something like that that started out as 100 people to choose from and whittled it down by weekly votes.
This way the OP can have all 75 choices presented, and those deemed worthy of discussion would be discussed, and those less interesting would be left alone to wither away.
I’m not sure the indirect approach is going to get you the response you’re looking for. Try something like this:
“No, what thing that isn’t the columns or the other posters that rhymes with ‘poderators’ makes this board awesome?”
Also, those pants don’t make you look fat at all. 
You know what, I want to apologize for that last post – I was in a silly mood and thought it would be funny, but I think it just came out as dickish and rude. Sorry, Czarcasm.
Not appreciated at all-those pants were a present from my mother.
Well, some people can wear double-knits and some can’t. You’re just *poured *into those. Busy later?
Czarcasm, as long as you’re here, mind answering why the above threads have substance and can thus remain open?
As to the subject of “substance” please reread post #11.
If we’re voting (as we seem to be) put me down for “should have left it open”. It may not have been a great OP but it should have been allowed to live or die on its own merits not be condemned by moderator fiat. Moderators should close threads for rules violations not as judgements of their quality.
So a thread consisting of nothing but rows of the letter “Q” should be left open?
Well, “management” have reversed rulings around here often enough, so that first line is off. Other than that, what exactly are you saying? We don’t need a babysitter to guide threads, but we do need one to delete the less fruitful threads? Your point seems self contradictory.
As far as what kind of moderation keeps posters here, I doubt it has a lot to do with deleting dumb threads as it does with keeping things civil.That poll was pretty godawful, but I have a feeling that most people come and stay here for the generally skeptic yet inquisitive nature of the boards, which is of course related to the SD articles’ nature - not the lack of stupid threads.
Based on your phrasing above, it looks like you think that the only thing that keeps the SDMB from being like YouTube is the moderation. If so, you are profoundly wrong.
Second, if you believe that this style of modding is necessary to prevent us from becoming like Youtube, you are again wrong. There are other boards without this style moderation that still have discourse way above YouTube.
Third, even if the type of modding done on the SDMB was a large percentage of the reason why the level of discourse is what it is, it still doesn’t mean that the particular type of modding you did for the thread mentioned in the OP is what is keeping the SDMB humming along nicely. There are tons of threads in IMHO that lack substance and are allowed to remain open and the SDMB had not turned into YouTube yet.
How many threads like that did you close today? How many on a typical day?
Can you clarify? I just re-read your post and I can’t see what about “substance” that thread lacked vs tons of others in IMHO. (If it were in GD I might agree with you)
And based on your response above some might assume that you are more into “reading into” than “reading”, but I won’t make that assumption based on such a small sample. In my opinion, moderation is one several factors that make this board what it is today.