Totally agree Tude. When I post on other forums around the web, I learn and must respect their policies and ways of doing things. They do things their way based on their membership. New members would challenge them also... change this, what about this, etc. These are all nothing new to any person who owns a community or moderates upon one. You would know exactly the issues that arise through constantly having members want to apply their stamp upon the forum, or having the forum change to suit them. It is frustrating at times, though I have been in the online game for near 12 years, and lets just say.... there isn't much I haven't seen or been challenged with.

People must simply respect the rules of any community they go to or are part off. If they don't then the choice is to leave that community. This applies to all online communities, as no community have I ever seen just allows anything goes or adopts new principles constantly based on requests from new members. A new member doesn't even know how that particular forum works or runs until spending a good month upon it reading and posting.

Members must know moderators, know what they will and will not allow, then they push the boundaries if that is their way within those guidelines, not just blatantly ignore them or attempt to create their own. No secret, I don't tolerate much BS. I gave four warnings before making the decision to moderate this member, none of which I got a reply to just say, "no probs, sorry, I hadn't see it and didn't know"... na da. Above those four private warnings I posted editorial notes to the users posts when editing, still nothing. One sure way to get moderated is to ignore the forum rules in which all members agree to abide, myself included, if they are going to participate here.