If I may interject for a moment here, and let me make it clear that I'm not lambasting any mod in particular nor am I supporting name calling by any means but some of what Somere said has merit to it.
Only recently did Khalid edit a bunch of comments (on the United forum) from "shitty" to "City".
Fine.
But if you take a quick peek at the city page and a certain somebody can't stop talking crap about United and uses "Manure" in abundance, as well as scum, rags, and a few other ones.
So we complain about it and we get told that they can do whatever they want on their page as long as it doesn't break the site rules.
So why do our comments get edited and deleted?

That, is down to Khalid and what example he hopes the members of United set across the site. I know that I've asked Spurs members to tone down swearing in the past, I'm sure that there are plenty of Arsenal members who can justify to Zilch and Cloudst asking them to do the same. We all want our clubs to be good and set an example.

It is not against the current rules for a United supporter to use the term "shitty" on the United page. However, it is against the rules to do so on the City page. When those posts are edited on a rival forum or a neutral forum like the Permiership page, we still get calls about bias. We edit similar posts from City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham.... And we're supposed to have a anti united bias, anti liverpool bias, anti city bias, anti arsenal bias, anti spurs bias.... Not sure how its possible for one person to be adjudged as being biased against so many clubs. Doesn't the inference point out that we've been consistent?

What we need to realize, Cheshire, that when we edit posts, its usually because someone's reported them. We don't follow the letter of the law all the time, but when there is a report that happens, we need to

A) Follow the letter of the law
Be) Take an action to ask everyone to step back and calm down.

This entire thing has stemmed up from me taking action be in one such instance. And then I get a smartass quip from Somere about "Saving face" when I try and explain the same. Can you not see how someone would be annoyed by such an instance?

Take your own scenario, Cheshire, when you've reported a guy with homophobic remarks. Didn't it get acted upon? And didn't it stay up till you reported it?

There are plenty of reasons for that. The most prominent one being that people find a lot more sadistic joy in baiting and taunting someone than in reporting it. Counter trolling isn't okay, and when we incorporate those rules and have to delete a bunch of posts, we're called out for abusing power.

Every mod takes actions according to the rule set they are given. Some mods, take an extra step in hoping that they can contain the constant swearing (which is actually against rules, but we don't incorporate it too strictly) that goes on the forums to try and steer the conversation into something that doesn't look like it belongs on Daily Mail Online. If you have further queries, do contact Khalid about that. However, this whole "mod power abuse" and "saving face" comments have got to stop, for on a personal note.... I am getting quite sick of having to defend my actions in order to try and prevent a whole 2 page discussion on a neutral forum about power abuse