GAF is a great all-in-one collective news and impressions source for the lazy internet user such as myself.
I don't post there much because, as I've said before, by the time I finish reading a long thread whatever thoughts I had have usually already been posted ten times over, and I'd just be adding noise. It's rare that I make a thread. I do enjoy lurking, though.
As someone who was nearly 27 years old before I ever participated in an online forum, I still find the politics behind them somewhat alien. Seems that anyone who owns or runs one eventually becomes resented to a certain degree, no matter what they do. And I've always thought that once a member of a large forum accepts a moderator position they should be willing to step outside their usual board presence and curtail their normal posting habits, if only to avoid the temptation to use the position for final say in what would otherwise be normal thread arguments. That diminished presence would be the sacrifice you'd make in accepting the responsibility, in other words.
I can't really make any damning judgements on board owners (other than just mock outrage for trolling purposes), though. They pay for it and maintain it, they can do whatever the hell they want with it. The easy solution to a member's dissatisfaction is to just not post there anymore. It's the internet. There are only, like, a million other message boards out there.
