I'll keep it short.
Here's my idea about how to deal with the "community moderation" issue, which is really a META issue since "community moderation" problems just don't seem to be present outside of diaries with "certain topics".
It's easy.
As soon as a diary is tagged META or PIE or SOMETHING WE CAN YET MAKE UP, it's pulled OFF the front page of the site, regardless of whether it sits on the wreck list or not, and is placed in its own section one click away from the homepage. Sort of the way we used to (in the early days of DK4) have to click DIARIES to all the diaries that were published. Back before Kos switched it and made RECENT DIARIES = all diaries.
This way everyone can go there to fling poo and make the same idiotic arguments they've been making for 2 and a half years. They can go there to insult each other and call each other names and throw accusations of every sort while influencing NOTHING.
The rest of us can come into the site's homepage and see a PIE FREE wreck rec list, and possibly even read something educational, rewarding, constructive, action-oriented and/or community-building. And the rest of the world doesn't have to see a bunch liberals, shit-fouled from flinging poo at each other relentlessly. Much less make our community look like an insane asylum.
So. Banish it like a penal colony. Or a time out. It's childish enough to warrant it.
How do you like THAT idea, Kos? I'm ready for a return to sanity.