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Originally Posted by Jinn
TFP does this well: - Discourages topics which can't be discussed at length
- Encourages well-thought out topics with substance (and rewards it with additional forums)
- Quickly moderates and removes any thread that is going downhill (threadjack, flamewar, inappropriate).
- Keeps a SLOW and steady flow of topics whose Subject line actually relates to the topic contained within
- Working to keep a mean age of 18 and higher - most of the threads and things said above come out of the mouths of those who aren't yet legal adults
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I'd like to point out that the moderators also do a great job of encouraging users to police the forum themselves by promoting the Report Post feature, and responding to those of us who do use this feature.