Yeah. I've seen this happen. I'm currently moderating a victim of that dynamic back to life. The first month was...hairy, let's call it.

I wonder, with SFWA, if anyone would have the authority and/or the balls to find a moderator for the groups and stand behind them utterly: empower them to clean the town up. And how much of the ongoing idiot scandal it might solve if that person could grit their teeth and stick it out that hairy first month or two.