I would say shut it down or at least have it fully moderated ie no postings until they have been approved by a team of moderators at least until the nonsense calms down. There are other ways too, like validating membership and email before allowing postings which would allow for easy barring.
If you take away the crap there is very little useful stuff left at the moment and I am sick of wading through hateful, bitter, spiteful, disgraceful rubbish. I would prefer nothing at all than this thick garbage from brainless morons.
I think what makes it worse it people responding to them which is exactly what they want. If everybody ignores them then they will get bored. Maybe a posting strike by everybody decent for 2 weeks then that will give the moderators chance to delete their postings, clear it up and maybe ban the brainless idiots.
Maybe they just didn't get what they asked santa for at Christmas, lives, so they are taking it out on anyone else. This board at the moment would be a psycho analyists' dream.
Mike
> I don't know, the guestbook can be pretty shocking!
> Seriously though, there are plenty of great people on this board and it
> would be a shame to shut it down because a few people are determined to
> cause trouble. Why punish the rest of us because of a couple of
> troublemakers? There must be other ways of dealing with the mess.