Politics What is happening????

I used to be a member of an Indiana Jones message board (big surprise, eh?) about a quart of a century ago. The staff loved to punish the herd for the actions of individuals. 5 people out of 700 can't manage their signature profiles properly? Fine, EVERYBODY loses their signature. Ha, ha!

Some members got special treatment (getting promoted to moderator) or were allowed to bend the rules whenever they liked.

One especially sinister aspect is that one member (who was not a staff member) claimed to be friends with Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford and also claimed to be an expert in the jacket Ford wore was given an elevated status. Eventually his lies caught up to him and he was exposed as a fraud- the staff worked overtime to "sweep it all under the rug" and delete anything that reflected poorly on the site. The member in question was banned, but it's clear that the staff threw him to the wolves to save their own asses. (If his write-ups on the jacket were forged, then what ELSE is suspect over there?)

I had already left when this brouhaha occurred. The place just stopped being fun.

On a side note, the staff also locked threads which went off topic. Not too worried about that here, though.