Without the Mods this site would grind to a halt. It would very quickly fill up with spam and people posting twice in order to sell things (still spam); not to mention the occasional abusive person who gets everyone's back up. Mandy has been up at the early hours of every morning keeping an eye on the site and dealing with all this crap in order to make it better for everyone. She has never been paid a penny for her efforts, and even when offered has refused.
Only a few of you are probally that aware what has happened behind the scences. This forum is like a good garden it needs a good soil and a great team of gardeners in order to keep it in shape. Us mods and Admin have our own meeting place where we talk about how the forum should be run. Sometimes this area is a hive of activity and every post deleted, member banned or rule changed is not taken at all lightly. Mandy has been invaluable for all of these discussion. This is what makes this forum special, having people like Mandy looking after its every need.
Mandy has a memory that last right back to posts from 2005, when she first started. This has been very useful in the day to day running of the site and she will be missed in our little area. She can even remember the times that we used to deal with sometimes hundreds of daily spam emails by deleting by hand, a long laborious process. She can remember the last 10 times everyone talked about planting potatos in tyres. I wonder if she can even remember when Leonardo De caprio gave out a selfsufficientish oscar?
I can personally say that there were times I could have easily walked away from this forum and let it grind to a halt and without Mandy it probally would no longer be here.
So please can you all raise a glass and say thanks to Millymollymandy for her great work over the last few years in keeping this a fantasitc forum for all of us.
She has promised to stay around as a non admin so thankfully this isn't goodbye. Its just good luck with garden!
Thank you Mandy.
xx
and I had to escape to the garden!
