effectively moderating panels, debates, forums is an actual skill and most folks don’t have it

if you want to get better at moderating, a helpful rule is to remember success is the opposite of when you’re a member of the panel: no one should really remember you. They should remember the panelists for whom you made positive space and from whom you drew useful contributions.

suppress whatever urges you might have to make points of your own, however brilliant, unless they are in service of a segue or help to clarify and refocus the discussion. gracious course correction vs show-stopping.