One of the things the current situation showed, frankly, is the great job moderators did on that site (OK,disclaimer: I was a moderator) to keep things focused. There was occasional whining that it took "too long" to get messages approved (it used to take a couple of hours perhaps), but folks never saw all the nonsense that was getting deleted before it hit the public and ruined the tone of a site intended to help builders.
As soon as Doug eliminated the moderator system and allowed posts to go straight through, well, they saw.