I get the impression, and it's totally my opinion, that there is a feeling that some great door will be opened by being a mod on a cannabis related forum. Personally, I've had great luck just staying out of the limelight.

Although, it can be fun to be a mod. All the boards I mod at are technical in some way (telecommunications, cellular, laptops, etc.). Some are very boring to mod at...you just watch the messages and ban people. The one I spend the most time at is a hoot. We usually have no less than 5000 users and visitors at any given time and it gets to rockin. Because the community is so large, we (moderators and admin) have a separate forum where we compare notes, talk strategy, and bad mouth users. We have our 'classics' thread where we post some of the more colorful messages that show up on the main forum.

Sometimes, it's a drag though. Two weekends ago, I had a user that was banned years ago come back with 3 different accounts!! I finally did an IP ban and he showed up later using IP's from wireless providers and a local college. So then we put him on 'global ignore'. So he comes back later that night using an open proxy. So now we have a list of known open proxies and the admin is in the process of adding those IPs to the ban list. Some of these people are WaCkEd!!!!!!