I am very tired right now so let me try to word this so as not to make it sound mean and disrespectful.

There are a lot of trustworthy people that I trust on this site in the geocaching community. I have always done the moderating and administration myself up until the beginning of last year (2010). There were a couple of reasons for this. Prior to that no one had ever volunteered to help and at the time there was really no need to have much moderation done on the site, we had no users trying to stir the pot or cause trouble, everybody seemed to get along. The reason I assigned another administrator at the beginning of last year was because I was leaving to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine (from Mar thru Oct). I could not leave the web site without an administrator for seven months. I had to find someone that I thought was trustworthy and knowledgeable enough with the software to take care of it for seven months. I did a little research and picked the person I thought would do a good job and had knowledge in web site software. I also assigned another person to keep the spammers of the web site so it would relieve the load off the administrator. Believe it or not there is a lot to researching IP addresses and other things to keep the spammers from coming back and registering on the web site. It may not be rocket science but being an administrator and/or the person taking care of the spammers is not an easy as you may think.

As far as moderators are concerned we really do not have any right now. The administrator that I assigned was the only one that was doing any moderation until I returned from my hike this past October. I could assign a few moderators but then no matter who I picked there would be someone whether it is you or someone else that would not like my choice. Then there is the other side of this, where does the person draw the line as to what a user has to do before they get there posts removed, moderated or even get themselves banned? What I think is different from what you think or what Jane or Jack may think. Some people think that users should be able to post whatever they want with the idea that this is a free country and we should have free speech, I totally disagree with that.

You have raised an issue that probably needs addressing. I should look into assigning a few moderators. This way the Administrators can strictly stick to administrating the software and help when moderators need help. I will wait until the new board members are elected and then I will address assigning a moderator or two with the new board members and we will work on some guidelines about editing, deleting, removing and banning members. Thanks you for bringing that to my attention.

On the other side of this and not to be disrespectful but if you or anyone else has had a problem with any one person or individual that has been moderating, administrating or taking care of the spammers why did I not hear about it in a private message before? Why am I all of a sudden hearing about it now?