Amazing, in fact.
And it's not just me.
About a year ago, I met the online editor of the Rocky Mountain News. The RMN has set up an online "community," all seperate Web sites for all their suburbs, then they print pretty much everything that is posted, once a week, for each.
Biggie or Cuda, tell me if I'm wrong.
Anyway, I met dude at a forum, but before so, I asked him a question, in public, after he gave his talk about the benefits of an online community, yada yada. After his talk, I raised my hand and said, "So, if Raider Fan, insists on carrying out his argument among Bronco Fan, and if they get into it, does anybody police it?"
Him: "We let our users decide. But if your question is, if Raider Fan makes our community mad, do we, as an online source, censor him? The answer is no.
Me: "So then how do you prevent Raider Fan from going out of control?"
Him: "We don't."
Me:

"How?"
Him: "Well, if there's something really objectionable, our users will let us know, and if someone reports him, we'll take action, if there's anything illegal about it, otherwise, we pretty much let everything flow.
So after the clapping and everything, I walked down from the auditorium, and shake hands with dude.
Me: "No way you let everybody get away with shit. I've been posting on a 'smack board,' based on the Jim Rome show. It's a lot of fun, but there are times when people's threads have to be moved to like a trash forum."
Him: "Yeah, I understand what you are saying. We haven't reached that point yet."
Me: "You haven't? On my board, we have folks from all around the country who log into our board -- mostly professionals -- lawyers, media types, tech nerds, desk monkeys -- basically a lot of loyal guys who enjoy a good fight or laugh."
Him:

Me: Yep.
Him: You are lucky.