You are like a turkey voting for xmas.
this free speech land love it or leave it
The bolded is most likely the reason people don’t want this (and any other) forum to be moderated (:
So who the fuck is Carleas?
Is he a ghost?
He’s a spook. An autistic spook cunt 
Who would dare to be an ILP moderator?
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Do we even need moderation? The current ILP ethos would suggest otherwise, that we don’t.
We are moderators unto ourselves and unto each other.
he’s the stone cold pimp that runs this joint
Imagine, Carleas (whoever he is or was) simply deletes, without publicly justifying this deletion, all those threads that violate his rules. 
I would like to apply for the position of moderator.
What kind of moderation would you like to do, ideally?
aah you know just regular old moderating I guess. Moderate a little of this, moderate a little of that… just… you know… moderating… like what you do when you moderate something.
Haha. Ok. Well, personally, I think the admin should give you a chance, to see if you are up for it.
If it works, then great. Less clicking for me to do on my own.
When I am taking a break,
sometimes someone has to wait to be approved.
Most of the approve notices i get are from spam bots.
But every once in a while a real new member posts.
And I can be late to approve them, because i am
doing other non ILP things.
If you were a mod, approval could happen faster,
because we would both be on it.
I have not yet banned anyone.
The ad homs usually go both ways and i can’t tell who started it.
prom’s got my vote
I would only want to become a moderator under one condition: in a subforum only for trolls without access for others - and vice versa. In such a subforum I could continue my troll research and at the same time encourage the trolls to troll more and more.
Having such a moderator would be better than having no moderator.
What would you say there is to moderate?
I have seen a few threads locked that needed it.
Aside from that, things seem ok.
I think all that you could do apart from that is remind people to stay on track if they diverge too far from OPs. Perhaps prevent ad hominem from getting too far out of hand.
The only other thing I have seen(only once in the last year) is repeat posts in multiple threads(same post in multiple threads) aka spam.
we’re an autonomous collective