You have to feel sorry for the moderators on PA. They are not bad folk, and have a big challenge. Just take a look at some of the gutless, anonymous no bodies that post on that forum. Most have never found enough gold to fill a rotten tooth, and prattle on about the most inane crap. There are some who are for real, but they are outnumbered by the hoard of redneck Trump supporters, Qanon nutters, and other human flotsam. There are two 'screws', totally lacking intestinal fortitude who love to snipe at me in their usual spineless way, and because they suck up to mods they go unchecked, but if I retaliate I get banned.
A number of refugees from PA have landed at Finders and have tried a takeover, but they have not had the success that they thought they would achieve.
A sad situation for some forums where the frauds and non achievers have the most say.
I have to agree with much of what you say.But some of the reasons given for banning people are simply laughable eg too many complaints from members about too many off topic posts. But just look at all the off topic drivel that fills PA!

But PA forum and finders are both about maximizing traffic which means more dollars in the forum owners pockets.As for moderation on PA their forum rules are a joke because they ignore them when it suits them eg political comment is OK eg like calling Dan Andrews, dictator Dan, chairman Dan, big ears and other quite derogatory terms and yet criticism of any conservative politician or Gov is very rare. If you are a redneck like "RM outback" and others or have have conservative opinions you can get away with breaking the PA forum rules! The random and ad hoc deletion of posts also completely destroys the continuity of many threads. While PA should get some kudos for allowing posts on covid whoa betide anyone who tries to post on the topic of global climate change.Their posts will be deleted and the member probably banned. by using a diffrent
PS if you are banned and can't access the forum just use another browser because all they do is ban the persons user agent which is easily circumvented or install user agent switcher plugin on firefox. I would also advise using script blocker, add blocker and anti tracking blocker on firefox when accessing PA forum.
doug
