The way that /. is "moderated" is very clever. Heck, anybody who wants to read everything will be able to. There's no censorship there, not even in the sense that the term is loosely applied these days. It leaves the choice to the user.

Maybe "moderation" isn't the term to use, though, since it will inevitably inflame the people who see censorship in every editorial decision. Maybe call it "flame rating" system or something like that.

Anyway, I think it's a very good system. I've been stuck with the job of "moderating" traditional message boards, and it sucks. You end up getting sucked into flame wars with raving nuts who didn't have anything to say in the first place. The /. system lets the raving nuts rave, and gives the rest of us the tools to read them or avoid them. Perfect.