Why do MODS act like such wimps?

[FoSHO99]

I feel like my thread benefits everyone looking to make more power with a supercharger. The thread got way out of control (no moderation) and was subsequently locked. Now the beneficial information will be lost. IMO moderators should moderate. Send out warnings and infractions, delete trouble making posts and keep threads with technical discussion clean... Just locking them doesn't do anyone any good.

See the other problem with that is the last time I soft deleted a post it turned into an all out "moderator is a faggot for deleting my bad language filled nonsense" And more crap like that. Then they get mad because they were infracted for continued warnings about the nonsense in their posts.