Mike,
I'm not one of the moderators but have moderated several forums for quite a while. What keeps this particular forum a great place is the fact that it maintains high standards and tries to clean up potentially disastrous threads before they go horribly wrong. And I know from experience that some honest, open, and truthful discussions can result in flame wars, personal threats, insults and worse. Especially when certain political viewpoints are being discussed, or like one of the threads that started to creep towards personal insults a while ago. I remember getting into a politically oriented thread several years ago and still regret I the comments I made there.
This is a luger forum and subjects should be as much luger related as possible. There are plenty of more appropriate sites and forums to discuss and ventilate personal opinions about just about everything. At least that's my point of view