Bill, thanks for the words about my birthday.
Now as with any new job, Mike is getting used to how we moderate here. He is used to moderating forums which have different rules and huge amounts of moderation going on. Its quite a change for him to moderate a site which is generally so civil and calm.
I've spoken with him and our moderation is going to be based on keeping things civil... I.E. Stopping flame wars, personal attacks and the like.
Heated debate is fine and good, but if attacks start flying, we'll prune out the attacks, but leave the post as is, for those with something significant to say the post will remain so they may say what they gotta say.
Alon