cheeb, my comment wasn’t directed at you…my apologies for not being clear. I think, in general, the influx of new users who tend to be younger and less “worldly.” Fluther is trying to grow but also maintain its essential quality, which means strenuously moderating so that this doesn’t turn into just another chat room. Remember the underlying purpose of Fluther is providing good, quick answers to questions that can’t be easily googled or looked up on wikipedia. Certainly, there will be some amount of “opinion questions,” which leads inevitably to snark and insults, but I know that Fluther is trying to hold the overall number of those kinds of comments down to a minimum.
If it feels too over-moderated, its only because the community is struggling to define itself.