Here's a good meditation for the day.
Let's say there was a Catholic forum by the name of "X.com"
It is run by a single owner/moderator.
The forum has hundreds of regular members discussing a wide range of topics.
One day, two individuals have a serious dispute about Television. One of them, Liberal Larry, thinks it's OK to watch; the other, Strict Sam, thinks it's mortally sinful to even own one. They vehemently argue for several days, going back and forth and getting quite heated in their comments, name-calling, and rhetoric.
Finally they both "call each other out" and shortly thereafter go to the Moderator with a "it's him or me" ultimatum.
The ten million dollar question: What would you do if you were the Moderator?
A) Ban Liberal Larry, and have him storm off to other fora to blast X.com as being a bunch of nutjob cultists who want to live in a bunker, who have forsaken the truth in favor of a new Jansenism.
B) Ban Strict Sam and have him storm off in a rage to blast X.com as being taken over by liberals -- after all, the moderator can't even see that owning a TV is a mortal sin. What's next? Pandering to queers?
C) Try to stick to the truth -- that owning a TV isn't prudent because of its brainwashing power and the fact of WHO owns all the studios that produce its content -- but that it's not a mortal sin to own one. If you take this path, you might risk offending BOTH of them.
And whichever choice you make, you'll probably make more than 1 enemy because each of the two combatants has been a member for years, has his various strengths, virtues, charm, etc., and has collected quite a few friends/followers on the forum.
Moreover, once the "controversy" breaks, any general malcontents will jump on board, trying to stir things up as much as possible, for their own various reasons.
You might miss an objectively bad post or two -- something that needed moderation -- being as the forum gets 400+ new posts a day, and the various factions will keep quoting how you "allowed" this and that to be posted. Strict Sam and Liberal Larry both have their days when they're wrong -- either going too far to the left or the right -- so there are occasional bad posts from both.
Moral of the story: It's NOT easy to be a moderator. A lot of people think it would be great, but let's just say "you know not what you ask."