Moonlight Mystique
You are an idiot for preaching to Lance as this is his site. At the same time the CEGers aka the members are what makes the site great, and ignoring them will degrade the site over all.
www.gunsnet.net, which I frequent alot (my other hobby) has all gun related forums, and then a "lounge" area. Why not have an off topic section with a disclaimer "the opinions expressed have nothing to with site owner..etc" and let all non tour topics (i.e. Hottest chick or street race) go in their and it relieve you of any liability. I think that if you had an unmoderated section you'd find that less time would be spent by moderators locking posts or deleting them entirely.
Again, it's your site do what you want, just don't forget why the site is so great.
