Now the mods think its too big to get hurt so talk to people like !!!!.
Not my experience. The few occasions where I have interacted with the mods they've always been polite. Months goes by when I don't notice their presence. And the few occasions where I do notice mods modifying or deleting posts in a thread, I almost always concur with what happened.
The mods are volunteers though. And human too. If you talk trash to them, you can be pretty sure to be replied in kind. Or get banned altogether.
I have to say that I agree with that whole heartedly. Months can go by when I too don't notice moderation taking place.
When people talk about the moderators "on this site" they should be careful not to generalise. BRL is our main moderator, and I think have a very good balance on the forum. I don't frequent the other forums here, and moderation there may be different. But there is no need to tar all moderators with the same brush. BRL's moderation is light in the extreme, which is a good thing.
dp