Fair point, but there were one or two Narcissistic gobshites amongst the "classic" posters of yore. In any event, I much prefer an under-modded forum to an over-modded one.

Pity about stories like the OP's here, though - nicely written, inoffensive, more or less on topic, and still coated with the aforementioned dribbly shit.

Hey, ho.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 0:17, 1 reply)

Yes, there were some posters
who were perhaps somewhat "inventive" with their stories - but at least they were generally well-written and on-topic and amusing.

The howls now of "lies" whenever anyone posts anything which may, for example, involve that person having had sex (which does, strangely enough, happen to most people, although the arseholes who now clog up QoTW could probably not believe that) and general abuse that greets most posters has put off most people from bothering.

In general I'd agree with you about the desirable levels of moderation, once the 10 worst offenders at the moment had been nuked from orbit. However, as they are so desperate for the strange validation they take from coming out with their crap, odds are they would be back before too long anyway.

Hey-ho, there's always the QoTW archive to look at for good stories...
(TheImmortalJenkins, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 1:00, closed)

I've gone back a good couple of years -
srsly good laughs in some of those Popular Pages.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 8:24, closed)