First off, Baiscwiz is doing a bang up job overall and - given the amount of traffic this forum gets - I don't think anyone could do better.  

This is a great forum to post in but - being completely honest - it's a fucking horrible one to moderate.  First because it has so much traffic and second because yes, it does attract a number of outright loonies.  There is always a balancing act between keeping things moving or killing something stone dead.  Too much moderation and you get a lifeless, no fun forum which eventually withers and dies.  Too little and the weeds grow and choke the life out anyhow.  

Nobody's perfect - believe it or not, even I'm imperfect - and sometimes mods don't get it right first time, every time. 

As for how I'd abuse the ability to lock people out of threads, there's a list of people I'd lock the fuck right out of my threads, no matter what.  That's unfair because these particular people aren't always complete idiots, not always trolling and sometimes actually have something interesting to say.  

Keep in mind these particular idiots don't bother me, really.  In the great scheme of things they're just a bit of untidiness I could do without.  It irks me to see potentially interesting threads get derailed (and often locked/removed) by the actions of certain parties.

And no, I'm not telling you who they are, not even in a PM.  

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