I will stop participating in Wikipedia if the lists are moderated by anyone other than Jimbo.
This is, to use one proposed moderator's turn of phrase, a "*really, really* bad idea, nay, a breathtakingly idiotic idea".
Or to use another proposed moderator's turn of phrase, "Horseshit".
Or maybe we should have the person who wrote "I hate everybody and everything. I will destroy Wikipedia, and you can't stop me." moderate.
Or maybe the one who wrote "The mailing list is the semi-secret repository for the behind-the-scenes scheming to change Wikipedia."
At least 90% of our problems would be solved, without adding hierarchies and censorship, if we just moved to a bulletin board system.