It doesn't seem like this site tolerates trolls like IMDb

I hated when the super heroes and super hero power snuck onto to INTK on IMDb

There are two sides to that coin. The correct minimum amount of moderators is only meaningful in relation to how well the users get along with one another. In a perfect world there would be no mods, but we all know online behavior is less than perfect. Anonymity tends to tempt people into behaving in ways they would less likely do in real life.

Part of being a good user is knowing what trolling or abuse actually is (by actually bothering to spend time reading the terms and conditions that you agreed to by registering), preventing your posting from straying into that area and knowing what is and isn't worth reporting. Mods sometimes are forced to waste time on frivolous reports when they could be dealing with real concerns elsewhere. It depends on two things: The quality of the mods and behavior of the users, so the answer is really relative. As in real life, policing levels reflect levels of actual crime. On a site riddled with trolls, a higher number of mods are needed, on a site with no trolling, the number might be zero.

I incurred the wrath of one mod named Rachel over there when I disputed a two minute PQ raise just for asking a question on a thread where a fight broke out on the Help Board. Everyone involved with that thread, even the ones who weren't directly involved in the fight, were punished. When 'Rachel' got back to me she gave the usual IMDb shpiel about how IMDb doesn't disclose the details of its policies, etc, and admonished me to make sure I followed T&C in the future.  So I decided I'd really do something that broke T&C-I C&P'd all of our correspondence into my profile and went off. I didn't even advertise that I'd done it but she obviously saw what I did and reacted accordingly...slapping me with a 10 minute PQ, the vindictive bitch. It took years for my PQ to get back down to a minute, lol. It really was unfair but whatcha gonna do?? I wonder if she lost her job or just got absorbed into the company after IMDb closed its MB doors...

Good. anyone who acts up beyond a certain point deserves to get penalized.

as a general rule... i prefer forums to be more lax than too strict but at the same time i don't want the place flooded with any obvious trolls/spam either. that's where IMDb slipped up as while it was lax, it was too lax, as it never really had any legitimate moderation of the obvious junk.

I think where IMDb's administration slipped up was in the creation of a board for every single thing, ever. If it became too much to handle, they should have just cut the boards for individual actors, films, filmmakers, and such, and just left the main boards like the ones we have on here.