` * First rule of Wikipedia Fight Club: The 1st rule is: ``Don't tell newcomers WP is a fight club``. 2nd rule: ``Wikipedia is a fight club``, and newcomers do not know that, so they come here and edit for awhile before they get into a fight. Sue Gardner has a valid point that newcomers are needed to sustain editing (often as ``cannon fodder``) in disputes because there are no/few moderators to ensure civility, and even when a admin tries to ensure civility, they often overstep and force content decisions, such as, ``we cannot write that student was suspended 3x from school despite sources that parents confirmed suspensions`` because an admin says not to write that. So, newcomers burn out, and more newcomers are needed for editing. People could hope that a moderator would be appointed who was Albert Einstein as clever about the issues; however, a moderator is also likely to be ``Francis Bacon`` stuffing a chicken with snow to preserve it. Unfortunately, moderator judges need to have good judgment, and typically that would be assured by a tedious pre-certification process. Unless pre-screened to keep them out, then poor judges would be difficult to remove, so perhaps a term limit could automatically kick them out. Meanwhile, more progress seems to be made by balancing freedom and control, where control would typically grow stronger to lock out most changes (and most improvements) unless counterbalanced by freedom to allow some changes. Yes, it can be disgusting when careful, researched text is reverted or axed by people, but more often, the text is allowed to remain. Perhaps people who continue as IP editors are less likely to be targeted for fights, because they do not have a memorable name to slur, or do not have a stable talk-page for complaints, and when they rotate to other IP numbers, they cannot be easily stalked for wp:Wikihounding. However, imposing a system of moderators presupposes that moderators would not alienate more people than trolls have, but even some admins are more dangerous than trolls because they are easily duped into blocking the good editors while the trolls continue to foster sneer-reviewed articles. Trying to control the mobocracy has been difficult. Yet, many people have survived the fight club activities here, even though other people are driven away. -  `