At one time I was moderating five large forums at one time. I know that it is hard work. I'm not beating you up over past mistakes.

All I am saying is that the practice of going out of your way to find old posts to move or delete has caused this whole mess. When I was a mod, I did something similar to this one girl I considered a spammer. I ended up going back into the history and deleting her out of existence. I thought I was doing a good thing, but the forum members reacted in a similar manner to the members here.

Something else I found helpful was to have two aliases. A mod alias and a moderator alias. That way your mod stuff doesn't follow you to your other forum participation and enjoyment.