I tend to agree.
The forum is going downhill and Sam needs an excuse. If there's a moderated folder and the forum really gets trashed he can blame it on the folder.
sam needs to stop protecting nicks that cause traffic to go down. He needs to understand that if you have one nick that drives away 20 nicks, you're going to have to spend effort to attract 20 nicks back just to keep up the traffic.
sam simply does not get it.