It's sad to see a good board slowly die and crumble. It's worse to see the reason is poor board mods. However, it drives the point home to anyone hosing their own UCB. Choose your mods wisely, it may come back to bite you in the ass. I'm lucky, I have a small board with a good bunch of people who frequent it. I have only ever needed one mod besides myself and I feel I made a good choice. Larger boards require more mods, it's just the nature of the beast. Too many mods though, and you have a problem. Mods, to me, are there to set an example for the board. The rules must be enforced, but, each board has it's own level of tolerance. If you look at my board, Final Fantasy Universe, off topic posting is, for the most part, quite acceptable. Obviously there are limits and those are dealt with when they happen.

A board like kitties & rainbows has only it's admin to take care of it, but with the amount of GS mods there, it's never been an issue. It has it's own level of tolerance as well, and for the most part succeeds largely due to the discretion of it's posters.

Take a board like Exodus, which has many mods, but a strangely absent admin and look what happens. Poor mod choice broke the board, and the lack of direction killed it. Mods are free to post about "pimp dem ho's" but post a roll call, and it's locked. The problem is, not a single mod there is responsible enough to do anything about it, and the boards delcine ensued. I'm all for rules, but I prefer them to make sense. Seeing how fewer and fewer people post there, I don't think the board can afford to lose it's regular users. This isn't how one mod sees it though. Offending regular posters is apparently a way to encourage more "productive posting". I see one mod on a power trip who doesn't even post on the board anymore.

That's the way things go...and I have taken the board off my list. It's demise is evident.