my God we need a moderator

Well it works just fine for me. It takes a lot less effort to ignore a post than it does to reply to one, or worse yet start a new thread just to complain.

But the truth is, this is a HUGE group of forums with probably tens of thousands of posts a day, and attempting to proactively monitor them would be a full time job for several people. As it works now, complaints do seem to be addressed, and posts that violate the rules are eventually removed. I'd rather have the dpreview folks concentrating their resources on gear reviews rather  than babysitting the forums.