just because someone is a "respected perl leader" does not mean that they should have any say in the matter.

A moderator's job isn't there to decide anything, but to improve communication.

Please, please, no. If two (or more) adults cannot settle an argument between themselves, what makes you think a professional moderator would actually help?

So you think that professional moderators are entirely worthless?

Actually in many cases moderators help to stop strikes, when the involved parties are at odds with each other. (At least that's common practice here in Germany).

To start with, you would be hard pressed to find a professional moderator with enough technical knowledge to actually do the job correctly

Agreed, that could be real problem.

In reply to Re^2: Moderation of Open Source projects by moritz
in thread Moderation of Open Source projects by zby

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