The moderators are regular members of fluther, too. So yes, they do read comments.
On the other hand, the moderators don’t just wander around looking for things to delete. Members “flag” questions and answers (surely you’ve noticed the little “flag as” links next to questions and comments?) and they only specifically review questions AND answers that have already been flagged by members.
The Masons say that everyone has something to hide, some people’s dark side will always be worse than your own. So it’s perfectly fine to make banned statements.
Well, they have jobs and school and stuff. You pretty much have to flag stuff for them to look at it. I have a few mods on AIM and they don’t read everything. I point stuff out all the time.
I don’t even know if I’m messing with you or not. Last I heard, @johnpowell is a Moderator. I don’t understand why he’s denying it. I’ve never seen a mod do this before. Maybe it’s a stealth tactic to try to make you feel comfortable, then, when you make a banned statement, Whammo, banned and blacklisted. I think it’s a setup. The only way to find out is for you to make a banned statement. Better try it out.
Good. Really, don’t worry. Moderators banned about 4 of my comments over the years but they never booted me out of Fluther. I honestly don’t see how they can even tolerate my inane, pointless, off-topic statements, but they let me survive. Maybe they think I’m a court jester or village idiot. I’ve actually had excellent conversations with mods in Fluther comments. They’re pretty good people. You have to really throw a flame war to get banned.
[mod says:] Me, Devi (PnL), Andrew and Ben have access to your comments if we really need it (for investigating abuse and attacks, and so on and so forth). Private comments aren’t generally available to the mod team, because they’re, you know, private. <3
I’m trying to think of something banned to say but can’t come up with anything. I’m still in shock that @johnpowell used the “f” word and didn’t ban himself.