I am a moderator on a motoring forum.

Moderation is not about being a dictator.

Good moderators know when to leave well alone - most of the time.

But sometimes, things get out of hand and someone needs to carefully guide people in an appropiate directions. Sometimes asking people to agree to disagree and leave things as they are.

Sometimes people will not agree and the nature of a forum means that people can continue to state the same positions and no progress is ever made and it does the forum, the subject or the people involved any good.