I've posted in the Motoring forum that both forum member ORB and myself were on the cusp of being set up as moderators primarily (but not exclusively) to help out with spam. We only had an email from Avant on Monday evening to confirm a few things before he contacted the IT team to get us set up.

Both ORB and myself have both emailed the editor to confirm we are both still very happy to proceed should that be what the site owners want, if only on a temporary basis until matters are stabilised following the tragic death of Avant.

Edited by Xileno on 11/03/2021 at 15:45

I'm sorry if I seemed cynical, but I have plenty of reasons to be distrustful of the internet. I'm afraid I can well believe that someone might post something like this maliciously.

However, I'm happy to accept my suspicions in this case are ill-founded and I apologise if my doubts have caused offence.

I did ask myself the question, but as Xileno above said, it seems a strange coincidence.

Both Xileno and myself have emailed David Ross, who will update asap.