When I think about what should be removed or moderated in the forum, I think of YouTube. I don't try to have a conversation on there anymore because racist rants and incorrect facts abound. So much garbage exists in the comments section that I don't care to take the time to sludge through the mess to find the gems. Wheres, on this forum that seldom exists. (I've unfortunately contributed a poor comment a time or two, but humbly realized my mistakes, corrected them as best as I could, and moved on.) Being on a forum such as this is such a joy and quite a rarity among Internet forums.
As we get more people on the forums, we will have more problems. One of the penalties of doing a good job.
YouTube lets everyone say what almost whatever they want in any way they want, but it severely cripples any kind of intelligent conversation. A forum of any significance will need to be moderated. We won't always agree on what exactly should and shouldn't be moderated, but Bob has a great aim and hits close to the bulls-eye most of the time.
I have a problem with someone stating something that is factually incorrect, yet touts it as their "opinion" then promotes that "opinion" to neophytes who could be damaged from that misinformation.
As far as grammar, we do need some standard. Most of us can handle some poor paragraph structure, some misuse of apostrophes and commas, a few misspellings, or a the occasional misplace modifier (misplaced modifiers, while a pain, can be quite humorous! lol). What most of us can't handle is complete lack of capitalization, no periods, no commas whatsoever (or like me- too many commas!), etc. If you don't know that "Internet" is supposed to be capitalized or misspell/mispunctuate "youre", you'll be fine. If non-native (or lazy native) writers don't capitalize the beginning of a sentence or forgo any kind of punctuation, that person will have a much harder time articulating their idea no matter how awesome that idea may be. Surely, there are gradations, but even those of us who use English as a second language, know the most basic of rules. If you won't make some sort of effort to elucidate what you are trying to say, I, too, won't make the effort to try to decipher what you are trying to say. However, I would like to make it very clear that those of us who are ESL and simply can't communicate in English worth a darn, I hope you stay around. We are a patient group and will work with you. As you get better, it will become more enjoyable. The lazy ones will hopefully move on to other forums.
