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Here's the deal between moderated vs unmoderated. Unmoderated can work well, but ONLY on a small board. I like a bigger board with a wide range of thoughts and ideas like TFP - but with a certain number of active participants that you still feel somewhat close knit. I'd say I feel like I know the personality in some general sense of about 50 to 100 people here. Thing to keep in mind is just that it takes more active participation on your own part to notice these things as well. The bigger the board, the more participation necessary to gain the community feeling, that's all.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Slashdot as an unmoderated forum. Sure, it's not *quite* a forum, and it's not *technically* unmoderated, but it basically is. It's a real exercise in stupidity if you try to read Slashdot comments with a threshold of -1. Of course, if you read with a threshold of, say, 3, you can weed out most of the bad and see mostly good. Hence why I still bother reading comments to some Slashdot stories.
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