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I've just had my first real interaction with (three of the) site moderators at the Forums, and it was pretty depressing: they managed to show discourtesy, heavy-handedness, and obtuseness (natural or assumed) in the space of a short discussion. This even extended to the unexplained and unjustified deletion of one of my messages. Aside from answering a question that I've had for a while (that is, what sort of person volunteers to work for nothing for a commercial site), its only positive effect will be to save me from getting involved in the Forums again.

I had thought that the only down-side of Last.fm (aside from its tendency to take up far too much of my time) was its incredible bugginess; it's the most bug-ridden and prone to collapse of any site that I've been involved with. It now turns out to have the worst moderators I've come across. I'd thought, naïvely, that a site based on shared love of music would engender a better, not a worse spirit of community than a general site (such as, say, Wikipedia). …