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You could be right, at this moment in time, I don't know enough to say either way.

There are ways around the potential defamation thing - offshoring, trusts, etc. I wouldn't suggest that site has no mods, I would merely suggest that the moderation is done in a way that stops individual mods enforcing their views on threads - I have an idea on how this could be achieved too.

I have got involved in a number of businesses and projects in the past that people said were impossible. Some turned out to be (at least for me) but many weren't. I'm good at what I do. Or at least I'm good at getting people who are good at what they do to do what they're good at…..

One of the ways the site could raise funds towards self-sufficiency could be a paid level as well as a free one - perhaps with the number of posts limited on the free plan or similar, and some threads accessible either as a paid access or through watching ads etc, like Youtube or Spotify.

The immigration thread is a microcosm of all that is wrong with Boards, and why it finds itself in its present predicament.
Two weeks ago, during the lull in biased modding, it was booming, one of the busiest threads on the site, with lots of discussion back and forth. As far as I know, nobody died from hurt feelings during this time, nor was anyone sued. Cue, Necro comes back and bans almost everyone who disagreed with one particular poster. Now the thread consists almost entirely of that poster posting streams of unchecked rubbish, abuse, and lies. Now the thread is effectively dead, with 3 or 4 posters bravely soldering on. What has this achieved, other than making one mod and one poster feel good about themselves? Has it helped discussion? Has it helped site traffic? Has it helped subs? Madness. It shows how weak and ineffective the ownership/management is, that they allow personal connections between mods and posters to actively damage the site. This is just one thread, but it is happening all over the site, and is the very reason why the site is dying. If this were my site, I could not just sit by, begging bowl out, while these people destroyed it before my eyes.

If that were the case, with current moderation, all it would achieve is to give the worst of the mods the pleasure of charging the posters they disagree with to ban them. I know for a fact that if I paid a one year sub right now and was allowed back in, Necro would ban me within days for some imagined infraction. The problem isn't getting bans lifted, the problem is that moderation is not moderation, it is censorship.

You’ll have plenty of peace on here shortly.