"but the main issue was a few members who were booted out returned with a vengeance flooding the blogs and forums. The owner would come online, delete them and (often within minutes) they would return doing it all over again."
That was when the owner came online at all, which was maybe once a month or longer. This made MD a very scam-friendly website. My routine became to first go to my mailbox and report/block all the scammers. Most of those fake accounts never got terminated. However, sometimes whole chunks of ordinary, decent members would get terminated for no apparent reason. MD is a putrid example of what happens when a website like this is not moderated.
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That was when the owner came online at all, which was maybe once a month or longer. This made MD a very scam-friendly website. My routine became to first go to my mailbox and report/block all the scammers. Most of those fake accounts never got terminated. However, sometimes whole chunks of ordinary, decent members would get terminated for no apparent reason. MD is a putrid example of what happens when a website like this is not moderated.