IRC Operators, web-forum administrators, moderators, "admins", they all suffer from delusions of grandeur and strange fears of being too tolerant these days. If they don't like what you have to say, they shut you down. I noticed there's some pathetically weak egos there. Confront them with truths about themselves, and they will mute you. Abusing their power to change reality. In all the years I've been busy online, I found out how Forum Administrators are seldom necessary. The good ones know this, and you will not notice their presence. Nobody needs people with god-complexes on the Internet, really. Look at Usenet; Nobody closes a thread there, nobody needs to play Big Daddy Oversight over other users there, and it runs just fine. In fact, it always ruins the atmosphere as soon as control-freaky behaviour enters the equation. Try to parent your users, and it will change everything, from a free and open, to a scary, limited, rigid, narrow-minded and tensed place. So long live Usenet! The only medium where you can still find true honesty in discussions, where you can write about everything without being banned or suffocated with blinking and animated crap or "ops" that think they need to…