Well, we have had another abuse incident with a member spamming.
We are very grateful to those persons who reported it. I alone got 5 PMs about it in quick succession.
The trouble with this mechanism is that when you PM me or ice (or another mod), it may be some time before the issue is dealt with, as one single person may be AFK (away from keyboard) for at least half of the day.
I wanted to make a post asking people to report these things to the 'Report Abuse' forum so whatever mods online at the time could see it, but quickly realized the reason people didn't already do this was because they possibly didn't want to look like a snitch or a grass.
So what I've done is made a user group called 'BTP Police Department', and if you're not a member of that group you can't even SEE the forum, let alone read or post in it. So it's very confidential. And no-one can see who's actually in the group, either. Totally on the Q-T, hush hush.
Please do volunteer via PM, but only if you are willing to chance a 'no' (as I will need to know your virtual personality pretty well to consider you).
The people that get in this group will eventually become full moderators once the board gets big enough.
Thanks for your attention!
PS Of course all existing moderators are members already.