There were no 'likes' early on as that function only arrived with one of the hosting changes.
While we had no moderators for a while, we did have self-appointed Guardians of Forteanism who'd interrupt when threads went off-topic.
I highly enjoyed dealing with that.
The Limericks thread was intended to have a strictly Fortean theme.
Sadly, as I've mentioned before, there are only so many phenomena and, crucially, rhymes for them available. After we'd used them all up, innuendo was the only way forward.

(Limericks are supposed to be trivial and humorous anyway. One never hears of 'educationa'l or 'elucidating' limericks.)
The magazine hosted the board originally and, rather naively I thought, tried hard to oversee content.
For example, posts for the IHTM section had to be submitted for inspection and could be rejected for undisclosed reasons.
There is a mention of this on one of my posts where I describe trying to post an absolutely cracking, up-to-the-minute account of how Techy had been severely haunted at work that very day.
It was rejected with no explanation, presumably because I wasn't believed. How rude, and not remotely Fortean.

At that point I could have thought
Stuff this, I'm off! and I bet others did. Still do, when they are dismissed or ridiculed.
My sole reason for staying was to read about weirdness and gently
beat coax the details out of shy new posters.
We have heard some stupendous accounts over the years. Some people sign up, spill the beans for the first time ever and then leg it.
If they didn't have this place to come and get it off their chests they'd take it to the grave. That's worth staying for.