Frankybadboy, what I actually like about forums in general is that they all have rules peculiar to themselves.
Almost everyone on here will cuss like a soldier whose been shot in the backside, but on here you can't even use language you'd see in the Telegraph, let alone The Sun!
On other forums other rules apply.
As a moderator I just try to make sure the forum members stick to the rules, or are at least aware that the rules exist!
Without the moderators policing the forum and rapping the odd knuckle here and there, threads can turn absurd, veer utterly of course, or just becoming little more than chat between mates, which isn't what Admin want, and...well, you get the idea.
I don't make work for myself on here, hell, there are many that spend way more time here than I do....why I'll bet that I can almost go 20 minutes at a time during the evening before having to log on to the forum for a quick scan of the forum....which usually takes about 4 hours of course.
Ian