self moderated topics are not good, because they silence any critics,
however, for the right price, we sell our soul to the devil,
patrons and royalty have the possibility to delete replies to own posts, thus effectively having self moderated topics.
however to avoid abuse, nothing is really deleted, it goes to recycle bin, thus if caught really abusing the patrons can be stripped of rank.
definition of abusing : mass deleting replies or deleting bounty/ airdrop submissions.