packing.org was an awesome site that I was a member of for years, thousands of posts I had. Then the owner changed it to a self moderating site by the users, within maybe 6 months it came to an end.
The other line forum ran by cable dawgs is a perfect example of a moderated site, you spell a word wrong your post gets deleted. You go visit there and there are not posts, no interesting topics...then you see the moderators asking people to post because nobody is posting. If they are it's deleted.
I filter through most of the crap posted on here. Every forum has that.
Think about what ya'll are wanting. I've been on message boards since 1994 back before people even knew what the internet actually was instead of this click click shit. Some pervail, while others go right in the toilet.