Thank you for putting it so delicately..
The simple fact is, one cannot moderate and practice celibacy about their opinions at the same time. However, moderation is very rarely affected by opinion as generally playing god on the forum turns out to be no fun. Moreover, suppose you have a moderation "bot"... what sort of decision will he make? How will that interpret certain opinions as unforgivable and forgiveable.. how will it know exactly where to be "political" and realize that a certain issue has heated up due to "xyz" factors and hence must be dealt with differently.. or that a supposedly eloquent person is just a troll derailing a thread.
You need the human factor..and that human factor means that they too can have opinions on the matter and should be allowed to express those.
Coming to the matter of Seasoned debates between Indian and Pakistanis... there is only one way.. that is example by the Think Tanks and educated members. I do not mention senior as the number of posts does not determine seniority and many of the "Senior" and "Elite" members here are ..pardon my french.. Arseholes who are generally not worthy of respect nor any special treatment.
Some of the debates between Indian TTs and Pakistani TTs are worth seeing as an example.. additionally, those who are educated and possess good family values and intellect should have better sense to report and disparage any member from their own nationality that is engaging in pointless flaming or even low quality parroting. That will greatly affect the ability of those members whose sole purpose is to inflame and derail threads and make the jobs of moderators
easier to keep them pink as much as possible.
