Hello Peter,
My best wishes to you. It is your board and your rules. I can no longer see the almost daily eBay listings and I'm fine with that (not that you needed my permission
).
Aside from that, I am a moderator for a large message board. And I can't tell you how much I want to ban, delete and give it to the posters who are clueless critics, the angry, the stupid and those who flaunt the rules. Those who bad-mouth us are my biggest problem. Say one word in your defense, and somehow, they take immediate offense, promise to smear what I wrote all over the internet, etc. So damned if you do and damned if you don't. Like they can walk into
my house or
say it to my face, but no, I know for a fact that they would never, ever do that.
That said, I recall the the first time we asked others to help out. We should have run criminal background checks. It was like letting the fox into the henhouse. Things got worse because they let their buddies run free and do what they pleased.
Now, we have one helper who we screened personally who is doing a mostly good job. He did succumb to a few mind-numbingly stupid series of posts and overreacted, but we got him on track after the first few difficulties. I can't imagine what it's like to run a one-man show.
Best regards,
Ed West