By participating in a moderated forum, you have traded your ability to post whatever you want in exchange of everyone else being bound by the same restriction.
If you don’t like it, you can go post in some unmoderated forum. If you can’t find one without spam or low quality posts, them’s the breaks kid if you want the wild west you get the wild west.
No, moderating forums is not immoral.
By participating in a moderated forum, you have traded your ability to post whatever you want in exchange of everyone else being bound by the same restriction.
If you don’t like it, you can go post in some unmoderated forum. If you can’t find one without spam or low quality posts, them’s the breaks kid if you want the wild west you get the wild west.
But it isn’t my individual opinion that the moderator contradicts.
It’s the opinion of a couple hundred participants in the conversation tree. Who have expressed their enthusiastic YES through participation.
Surely the moderator’s single NO doesn’t outweigh that, morally speaking.