***boat moderators are / were selected by ***boat, not by the forum membership. People seem to forget it is ***boat that owns this website and offers the privledge of free participation to the public. People also seem to ignore or forget that the moderators donate their time to this for free. People also seem to ignore / forget that it is the moderators who saved this website from being shutdown due to complaints from the public about inappropriate content. Yes that same public that now periodically beats the moderators to death for enforcing ***boat's rules.
Also, anyone who creates a membership for the sole purpose of stirring shit up may be banned by any moderator at their descretion. The moderators job is to keep the website on track and free of bs type disruption that ***boat doesn't desire to be on the website. That occasionally includes the elimination of members that join only to cause disruption and / or problems, regardless to whether there's an IP match to an alias involved. This is ***boat's website. It is not a democracy nor is it owned by Burger King.