Message boards are places people go for fun. They're not places for distinguished mentally-challenged fellows with no life to go in order to rule with an iron fist people who just want to talk to other people with similar interests. Moderation on MB's should only be done under these circumstances:
1 - Extreme trolling. I don't mean "You're stupid" or something, I mean like barrages of insults or things that hit way below the belt. Basically, if there's a question, it's not extreme enough.
2 - Spam. No explanation necessary.
3 - Plotting major crimes (Online or off,) murder, terrorism etc.
That's it. Any other rules are just mods being whiny megalomaniacs with nothing better to do than make other people's lives as miserable as theirs, except that the rest of have the real world to escape into, mods like that have no lives whatsoever, so...