I remember way back in 1976 I was a young moderator, wet behind the ears and went absolutely loony with a Leeds fan (essentially a troll suckered me in). AF took me gently to one side, sun glinting upon his grey beard and said "Shaggy my old bud, settle down a bit and you'll make a great mod".

Needless to say I did both calm down AND make a fantastic moderator. More importantly, as AF invented the internet he's better equipped than most to moderate it.

This is all true.

I'm not sure surrealist interventions from fellow mods arguing for a benign dictatorship is particularly helpful

To be 100% truthful I'm just an alias of AF anyway, invented to lend moral support when he's starting to lose respect. In some respects it's like Fight Club.

Helpful? Maybe not.

But more entertaining than the 80 mins of rugby we've endured this aft? Definately.