Yakko's Journal: Moderation redux

This thread, which really should be here instead of on k5, highlights a fundamental problem with the whole moderation thing. jamie says to "write a journal entry abuot anything you want" if we want to create topics. His dissenters in that thread state that it's pretty much a red herring because of a lack of audience.

I have to agree with the lusers here.

One's journal entry has an audience of what? 4 people? How big is your friends list?

I'd like to wake up one day, come to the front page, and see something like "Users Think Moderation System Is Pants". It's been talked about in every other article, perhaps to death, but there has never been an article specifically about this thing. As for other articles relating to slashcode and such, I find that they really don't directly deal with moderation. Is this topic like the Forbidden Planet, or something?

So, the moderation system needs no improvement? I'll leave that question to the philosophers, but not discussing it isn't going to make the problems go away.