Whats moderation?
Moderation is the effort to reduce unessential or out-of-place information. Moderators are, in general, a lot like editors – their job is to keep things on-track and on-topic by highlighting the useful, filtering out the useless. Moderation of one kind or another is ubiquitous in the information we get every day. Few newspapers and magazines, for example, publish every letter they receive. Radio stations don’t play every song request or broadcast every crank call. Usenet discussion groups are often moderated to cull the best contributions, keep discussions on topic, and filter out spam and flame-bait. In all these cases, editors or managers decide what should be published or broadcast and what shouldn’t.
