To start us off...
1. We encourage people to use the report feature. Please don't try to shame anyone for reporting something, for any reason. We would much rather close a report that we deem unwarranted than have to deal with the resulting drama from finger-pointing. By the same token, please use the report features to call something to our attention, rather than post about it directly. One of the reasons we don't employ player moderators is to protect you from having to police your peers. A friendly mention is one thing, but accusing someone of rule-breaking only exacerbates things.
2. When it comes to moderation and account actions, you see what we allow you to see... which is very little. We keep PMs, warnings, bans, and whatever else private on purpose - even knowing that others won't see it. This is because we care about your privacy more than we care about any potential for a perception of inconsistent moderation. As an important followup to this, whatever you may have heard from another player is what they've chosen to share. It may be truthful, but it also may be half-truths (or less, in some cases). Only a Viking and an account owner will know these details without doubt.
3. Warnings (and other account actions) are entirely what you make of them. We don't have a set limit for the number of warnings someone can get. As moderators, we issue warnings or 'time outs' (depending on what's happened) to let you know that we've noticed something in your posts that is misaligned with our Rules. If we notice that you don't seem to be trying to better follow them afterwards, that is when we'll consider things to be a little more serious. We don't send them for fun, we don't mean any of them personally, and we certainly don't target certain Yos over others for warnings as I've seen some imply. The general idea is that if we (as Community Managers) can spend less time moderating, we have more time to spend advocating for and communicating with all of you about YoWorld - and our approach to warnings follows that logic.
And now... We're going to try something that makes me mildly anxious

This thread will remain open for questions for a limited time, after which it will be locked and we'll resume our policy of not allowing the discussion of moderation.
Please note that you are free to ask general questions. I will do my very best to answer. Please understand that I will not at any point be able to divulge account information, so there may be questions I am unable to answer.
More importantly, note that if there is any sign of behaviour that contradicts the spirit of the purpose for this thread (which is entirely intended to help us all get along a little better), it will be locked immediately. Any attempts to hijack or cause drama or turn the discussion to individuals' accounts will result in account action, up to and potentially including a permanent restriction from these forums.This kind of activity will be very heavily moderated. Basically: stay away from I/you/"my account" statements as well as "I got a warning for..." and "[name] got away with..." and the like. This is not an attempt to trap anyone, so please please don't make me enforce this part!
Okay. Ready for some communication? I sure (hope I) am! GO!