[OldDartmouthMark]

Thanks for weighing in, someone123. It's good perspective. I personally am thankful for all the work done by all the mods, as I realize it's typically thankless work and the mod is often considered the bad guy no matter what, even though they are just trying to keep the board reasonable for everybody.

I think it's a tough job to understand, as the level of sensitivity varies quite a bit just from forum to forum - for example the federal politics thread on the Canada forum continually allows posts that are quite confrontational, yet it appears that most posters there find it completely acceptable - the level of attack on that forum would be considered wa-a-a-a-ay over the top here, for example.

I agree that if members find a post offensive in any way they should use the tools available to notify mods, and then perhaps mods can have a better understanding at the regional level of tolerance (i.e. in the Halifax forums), and take it from there.

Thanks for everything.