Tails from the Bark Side

What a moderator does:
Dissuades people, publicly and privately - through extreme methods like infractions or through gentle reminders in the relevant thread - from arguing with or winding up other users for lolz.
Deletes posts with pictures inferring that members of Muse are paedophiles.
Defuses arguments with colloquial and jocular language, but with impartial, coherent and objective reason.
Paints self regularly as a complete and utter fanthing without shame.
Encourages positive fan events and band worship.
Shows dislike for pointless negativity toward the band.
Occasionally feels disillusioned by the band's choices...
...and has every right to say so as often or as vehemently as ze chooses.

What a moderator doesn't do:
Assume any authority over the opinion of any user, no matter how extreme the opinion, no matter how many of them there are.

Okay, so we didn't get around to defusing the beef that went down in this particular thread (which we had agreed was perfectly allowable) until a bit later on in the game. We could have stopped the arguing earlier, we admit that. There is also no problem with you telling us if our methods aren't working for you, but we're going to defend each other and our decisions. Sahrry if we're not going to like people going around calling us lousy and useless at our jobs because we do not censor people's opinions.