I can say that I have stopped contributing to the forum because I am
sick and tired Gohde. Despite Gohde's many claims that I have no idea
what I am talking about, my track record speaks for itself WRT SEO.
Like many regulars here, I am the sort of person Google wants as a
regular because I am able to provide good advice to many queries that
arise here.

I stopped contributing to the forum for the best part of a month
because Gohde personally attacked me after almost every   post I made.
When I returned last week I noticed that Gohde was still up to his
antics and started the thread to have him permanently moderated or
banned.

I am certain that Gohde sits back after each insulting post and
congratulates himself with offending another person. In whatever sad
excuse for existence he calls a life, he is feeding off the trouble he
creates here.

What I am really dismayed about is that Google staff sit back and do
nothing. I think Gohde considers this complicit consent to keep being
a tool.

Doc, I don't know if the delayed posting would help - Peckerhead would
just need to wait a few hours before gaining the satisfaction of
stirring someone up.

If we ban him, he will just come back under a different name.
Google is unlikely to moderate him because they do not have enough
staff monitoring this NG to even bother replying to  this thread let
alone read each of Gohde's posts.

So how's this for a solution. Google appoint 3 or 4 people as
moderators. If all of these moderators reach consensus that a persons
behaviour is unacceptable that's person receives a warning from the
moderators. If the person continues to "rock the boat" then that
person is place on moderation. This moderation will be conducted by
one of the persons Google appoints as a moderator.

The benefit of this is that it puts in place a system that allows the
forum to self moderate.