Strange guests

Today I had to delete a number of posts on the guest forum which were clearly against our ethical code - either adult content, selling arms, or sexual drugs.

It is amazing how quickly the culprits found the open area - we purposely left the guest room unmoderated and put in a poll to see what sort of things guests and members liked on the site. Before we knew it we were having to delete posts like mad. I have set it to moderate now, which I do not like having to do because it feels a bit 'big brother' but we cannot risk upsetting our members and other guests - and although some other people may actually find that sort of content interesting, it is not for us!

Now, is there some psychology here. Yes indeed there are people as we know who concentrate on areas of 'business' that we find unsavoury and are clearly on the look-out for opportunities to advertise their products or services - and completely ignore the rules (either forum rules or in many cases the law).

I have mentioned the dark side of leadership on the forum, well there is a dark side to some people (and there are psychometric tests to assess this, which I am now very tempted to learn more about - previously I have tended to concentrate on the positive aspects of business!) There are people who would be classed as 'anti-social extroverts' or those who have been socialised perhaps into a completely different set of ethics.

I will have a read and see if I can get some insight.

Just fuming a bit too much at the moment to really contemplate this academically!