Tina wrote:
Is my memory correct that the 9th Circuit is the one most often
reversed by the Supremes? If so I doubt I'd want to test those legal
waters until it's supported at the highest level.

That's especially true when the effort itself would be as a volunteer!

This is getting absurd. It wouldn't have mattered if there had been no case
law. The simplest way to avoid the issue is for the moderators not to
approve anything potentially libelous. Those sorts of posts are easy to ID.

It's interesting that moderating is really what peer review is all
about, and I know of no professional journal that has been sued for
either publishing or not publishing a submitted article.

Moderation isn't about peer-review though. Have nothing in common.