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Originally Posted by Stephen
The bottomline is that everything you were worrying about is false.
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From the technical aspects - like spyware, virus attachments, etc. perhaps, but as far as attention seeking trolls - there's a fair share of those popping up on a regular basis. Evidence needed? One such piece is an individual who seems to be a regular on another forum and is apparently a female there. Here, they're male???? Same dog/same name. Now in all fairness, it may be someone confused about their sexual identity, I don't know. What I do know is lifting pictures off of websites without express permission of the owner is copyright infringement and there are people who will nail someone's arse to the wall for it.
The troll issue, that is really just an unfortunate piece of baggage that comes with forums set up the way GoCorgi is. I may not know all the technical stuff, but I do know the nature of lists/forums and what certain formats are more prone to attract than others. The hope in dealing with trolls is that a lurker on the forum might find an answer to a problem they are having or someone else might learn something. In that the goal of education and promotion of responsible ownership succeeds, a little more important <IMHO> than the promotion, pimping and prostitution of the breed(s).
As for an additional moderator or even maybe more than one; given the pace of the rapid growth of GoCorgi, it might be time to give that more thought. As Michael mentioned, everyone here is a "volunteer" and distributing the "work load" helps prevent burn out.
Debbie