I was just thinking about the way the forum operates currently. Would there be any mileage in creating a kind of 'democratic' system where people were sanctioned according to the number of foul votes they were given by other members?
It would certainly take the heavy weight of responsibility from the shoulders of Admin, who currently has to wield the banhammer from his lonely position in the cloud. Self-policing could work, you know. Give it a try?
Would also mark this forum out from other, run of the mill operations, like SC, and probably attract a more sophisticated type of person.