I still like my
http://slashdot.org example with categories and points. I understand that the moderators are busy, but wouldn't it then be time to call for more? I appreciate the open nature of this board, but now sometimes posts get deleted with for me no obvious reason -moderators nerve touched?- while other equally bad postings remain. How about opening a new forum called trashcan, where people can not post, only read and where all OT/funny single line posts, offensive posts or other below standard posts disappear to? This could be programmed as a single button action for the Mr and Mrs moderators, with a small group of senior moderators to take more important political/policy decisions? Not close to
http://slashdot.org but (imho) better than it is now.